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Theland - // Straight answers would be a miracle from some of you atheists.
You believe in nothing and when asked anything, you simply say you don't know.
You'd make lousy witnesses in a court case.
''I claim the fifth! No comment!''
Oh I suppose its cute in some mysterious way! //
But we're not in a court, are we?
In these endless debates, atheists have the simple end of the argument - we don't know, we don't claim to know, we are willing to accept that someone will know one day, but not in our lifetimes.
Fervent Christians on the other hand, claim that they do know - and that places the burden of proof upon them, which they are consistently and frustratingly unable to provide.
As naomi points out, quite reasonably, there is nothing whatsoever wrong in not knowing, and saying you don't know.
Where the issue arises is that fervents claim to know, but offer no proof whatsoever, only suppositions, and quotes from a book, which is not proof that is going to stand up on here.
I have no problem with you not knowing, that simply makes you like me.
I do have a massive problem with you claiming to know, and the fact that I don't know like you is simply because I am too thick to grasp the knowledge that you have, which insults my considerable intelligence.