I don’t disbelieve anything that god is or claim them to be. God isn’t a thing of this world beyond the minds of the imaginative and insane, their is nothing to believe about something that’s never existed. I could just as assuredly argue that Pokémon are real if I was imaginative or insane enough.
You’re a fool.
Luke Skywalker is a man. He’s a jedi. He grew up on a farm. He’s a hero to the rebellion. He’s the son of Darth Vader. These are all true statements everyone can agree on. Everyone knows all these things. It doesn’t matter that he isn’t real.
If you told me that Luke Skywalker was a tree, I’d call you a fool. Luke Skywalker isn’t real, but we can all still agree he isn’t a tree.
Hopefully, this example has hammered into your overly literal mind that facts can still be true and false when they describe something that doesn’t exist.
Atheists claim that Deus burns people in a lake of father, AND that he doesn’t exist. You still claim a version of him, just like you claim a version of Luke Skywalker.
Christians are calling you out for claiming that a fake version of Deus doesn’t exist. And they’re right, you’re fools for it. Deny the existence of the actual nonexistent christian god, not a fake nonexistent christian god.
You misunderstand the quote, it isn’t saying that you’re making claims about what God is (Your claim is that God isn’t, which makes sense given that there’s no evidence for such a thing)
The quote is saying that your attempts to describe what Christians believe about God, is inaccurate to what the Church actually teaches, and therefore makes for a poor debunking.
I suppose I haven’t been in that situation, I never attempt to belittle anyone’s life comfort. Shit is hard, if having that belief and community helps then that’s great for them. My experience has mostly been small towns (like 1-20k population small). The most I’ve done is say that I don’t feel their personal beliefs are a valid reason to impede on anyone else’s personal beliefs or lack of. My grandma is the only person I ever felt uncomfortable around, she was so sweet otherwise but would say pretty hateful stuff about me, not because I was unkind, disrespectful, or anything wrong other than, I’m sorry grandma I’m just not into religion. With that said, you are correct in that I misunderstood the quote.
I’m going to level with you, I live in a small town and I don’t think anyone actually believes in God around here. I think they try to tell themselves there might be one, because the idea that someone actually care, someone with a level of authority who can look at all this and say that this is wrong, and that we need better. Such a lovely fantasy that people turn to it in times of stress.
And I think that’s why Donald Trump is such a cult of personality, that’s not that he is anything special, it’s that he represents the fantasy that there is someone with power out there who wants to lead us out of this Wasteland into something else, who can make our delusions of not grandeur, but mere adequacy a reality.
It is not because his character is Noble or that he’s particularly intelligent or anything like that, but some people just want to live in the fantasy that someone up there is looking out for someone down here, and that it will eventually be okay
I think people who claim to be Christian but live in a big city, are more sincere in their belief.
I hope there’s an afterlife, because, maybe that’s when things will actually be okay