Image transcription: a section of a Wikipedia article titled “Relationship with Reality”. It reads “From a scientific viewpoint, elves are not considered objectively real. [3] However,” End transcription.

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35 points

It’s written that way to be as neutral as possible.

Replace “Elf” with “God” and you’ll see how important it is to “dance”

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13 points

There’s the same amount of evidence for gods as there is for elves and orbiting teapots.

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16 points

Yet gods and elves change the world and teapots are content to remain unobserved

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6 points

There is absolutely zero necessity to dance around the non existance of god. There is objectively no god.

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18 points

What a thing to say. It’s perfectly reasonable to say that there’s insufficient evidence to believe in any gods, but to state that there is no god as a matter of fact is as presumptive as saying that there objectively is.

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God doesn’t exist. The tooth fairy doesn’t exist. Elvis Presley is dead. If you want to believe there is a possibility for any of these statements to be false, you have a questionable relationship with reality.

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9 points

What evidence do you have to back up that claim?

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I love how nobody is responding to you, because the truth is: we can’t know, but most of us are very sure whether there is a god either way. It’s nonsense to call what an atheist believes absolutely “true,” because we can’t know. I’m an atheist, but it’s just pseudoscience to suggest that we can scientifically prove that there’s no god.

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7 points

Would you say that feelings, thoughts and numbers do “exist”?

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3 points

Would you say that God has the same power as the number four?

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