• PunnyName@lemmy.world
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      What ‘both sides’?

      One says, “gods exist, trust me (and my personal experiences without hard verifiable evidence).”

      The other side says, “I don’t believe you, prove it.”

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        You’re forgetting the response from the theist.

        Theist: God exists.

        Atheist: I don’t believe you.

        Theist: How can you not believe me? You have no evidence, therefore my God exists.

        Atheist: …

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          That’s effectively trying to prove a negative, which is nigh impossible.

          Also, it’s commonplace for a believer te be unable to empathize with a nonbeliever: it’s unfathomable to them that non-belief could be possible.

          It’s akin to a person with loving parents to ever consider that their parents could be unloving, their minds can’t comprehend it.

          So the believer goes about life thinking everything is a belief, even atheism. Which is an incorrect assessment.