[A_perfect_lady]

Can you prove there are no mermaids? No. You can’t prove a negative and we don’t have to prove squat.

[wintertime]

Can you prove there are no mermaids? No. You can’t prove a negative and we don’t have to prove squat.
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I can not defend your strawman creation.

The existence or non- existence of God is IMPOSSIBLE to prove. If I state that it is IMPOSSIBLE to prove God's existence or non-existence then I am NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT asking **you** to do the IMPOSSIBLE!

Is a “DUH” needed here? Gee! I thought atheists prided themselves on their logical thinking skills.

Are you using my post merely as an opportunity to throw out a canned talking point from one of the atheist websites?

[Makana]

How does atheism account for the Prime Mover? Something had to create the first matter.

Maybe the world was created 4,000 years ago or 4 trillion years ago. The point is that the first atom, the first neutron, the electron came from somewhere or something.

One give that creator any name one desires, yet I find it irrational to deny its existence.

[wintertime]

Fundamentally nearly all actions taken by humans have non-neutral political, cultural, and religious content and consequences.

Therefore: It is best that government be a limited as possible and as locally controlled as possible because everything government touches has consequences that are NOT politically, culturally, or religiously neutral.

It has been my observation that atheists, are wonderful defenders of government sponsored and paid-for evolution and godless temples of K-12 indoctrination ( oops! “schools”).

My conclusion: Atheists and evolutions are bullies. They just love that government establishes their faith and forces the rest of us to pay for it.