
Originally Posted by
cfmonkey
You made your mistake there.
The universe is actually finite. Very much so. If it weren't, then the big bang would be impossible.
Theists, like myself, believe that God exists without the universe. He is infinity. He is the whole and the universe is only part of it.
Thus, now, we fall back to the whole "theism can't prove God exists except through personal experiences that cannot be verified (or in my case, cases of extreme luck in near-death experiences), versus atheist cannot disprove God exists." Alternatively, there are those special few kinds of atheists who believe that there could be a God, but yet choose to not believe in any religion, therefore they fall back on the classical sense of atheism--the opposite of theism. More of semantics really.
He does that. I tore him apart in another thread where he claimed that religion was the cause of all wars (which, despite being an absolute statement, which by practicallity are usually false). I kindly showed him that all parties to those so-called religious wars had ulterior motivations (i.e. in the Thirty Years' War, between Catholics and Protestants, it originated as a grassroots quasi-civil rights movement, but was crushed due to the fact that they challenged the authority of the state instituted by the heretically empowered Papacy, but once that was settled the vast magnitude of the conflict was propogated by the warmongering ambitions of several other states in the regions, such as Sweden, Spain, France, Austria, etc. Curiously, France, a Catholic nation, joined a Holy War against its fellow Catholics on the side of the people who it slaughtered en masse only years before.)
Btw, this is a temporary alt of my other account cfmonkey45. It's temporarily banned because I had a virus that I suspect was utilized by a hacker to access my facebook and email, so I took it offline just to be safe. I formatted my comp, and now I'm here with an alt for the remainder of my 24-hour request.