Posted: Oct 07, 2016 2:10 pm
by zulumoose
Just been thinking, isn't this the ultimate question to ask a theist?

The more you think about it the more it exposes the weaknesses in theism, in such a way that they have to see the weaknesses framed from their own point of view.

It ridicules their idea of complexity implying God.
It ridicules their assumption of agency.
It ridicules the assumption of a single, ultimate God.
It causes them to think about why their arguments aren't just as valid for a completely different conclusion.

Basically they cannot argue against the validity of the question without rendering their own thinking style invalid. They are forced to try and dismiss the question without reason, and then have to answer why their own arguments cannot also be dismissed without reason, or if they say there is no reason to establish the question in the first place, why is there a reason to ask whether there is any god at all?

Am I on a winner here? How can theists counter the implications of this question?