There are two words that believers deliberately misunderstand when they debate. The first one is “belief” when they mean “faith”. They argue that believing in God is equal to believing that God doesn’t exists and therefor Atheism or Agnosticism is just another religion. Not believing or doubting that God exist is an opinion while believing in God is faith! Big difference.
The other word is the interpretation of theory as mere opinion so they can argue that the opinion that God does not exist is equivalent to the one that God does and neither can be proved. That is also a big difference. The opinion that there is a God is not based on reality but on pure speculation while a theory however, although perhaps not complete, is based on trying to explain observations and experimentation. When believers, because of cognitive dissonance hang on to these “misunderstandings”, debating is utterly useless
The other word is the interpretation of theory as mere opinion so they can argue that the opinion that God does not exist is equivalent to the one that God does and neither can be proved. That is also a big difference. The opinion that there is a God is not based on reality but on pure speculation while a theory however, although perhaps not complete, is based on trying to explain observations and experimentation. When believers, because of cognitive dissonance hang on to these “misunderstandings”, debating is utterly useless
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