Believers are agnostics.

Following up on my previous video entitled "What is God?" Since it is not possible to positively and coherently define what believers call 'god', theism is at best a form of agnosticism and excluded from the realm of reasonable discourse.

Comments on previous video:

http://www.youtube.com/comment_servlet?all_comments&v=rmhVuOxuo_I&fro...

Information about George H. Smith's book ATHEISM: THE CASE AGAINST GOD:

http://www.amazon.com/Atheism-Case-Against-Skeptics-Bookshelf/dp/087975124X

Tooltime9901's recent video on this topic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYe28MPPM3M

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[EstacadoConstantine]

There are thousands upon thousands of answer to what a god is or isnt.So what is the point of this vid.Just look up what peoples concepts and ideas of a god and find the thing that all gods or spirits or whatever have in common.

[ProfMTH]

@EstacadoConstantine "There are thousands upon thousands of answer to what a god is or isnt."

No doubt. None is coherent. That's the point. Hard to believe that got by you.

[EstacadoConstantine]

@ProfMTH none are coherent? What do you mean they arent coherent? They are beliefs and concepts so wouldnt be ONE idea about them all.What you said doesnt even make any sense at all.

[ProfMTH]

@EstacadoConstantine "none are coherent?"

None IS coherent. That's what I wrote. None of the various concepts of god makes sense. I find it hard to believe that you're truly having trouble understanding what I've written but anything is possible, I suppose.

This is all explained at great length in this series and the video "What is God?" If you're having trouble understanding, I encourage you to watch the videos again (assuming you watched them in the first place).

[VictoriaofSommerset]

I guess it is really hard for "some" people that have never experienced the power of the Lord for themselves to have any solid faith in Heaven. That's too bad...

[ProfMTH]

@VictoriaofSommerset I guess it's hard for some people to address the actual substance of this video.

BTW, what do you mean when you say "experienced the power of the Lord"? What, if anything, did you feel and what did it feel like?

[Snakepliskinist]

I was thinking how your statements about question priority were tediously repetitious...then I remembered how religious people consistently fail to realize this as well as many other incredibly obvious things. I'm not sure sure repetition will help, though. I find that religious people are like people who are really high. You can tell them they have to define God before asking/answering the question of his existence, but five minutes later they'll be gassing on with their spurious claims.

[EstacadoConstantine]

@ProfMTH No i understand what you are saying.But what doesnt make sense to me is how an atheist who doesnt believe in God could or would want to rationalize a spiritual and philosophical concept.I dont see the point of a person trying to simplify such an ancient concept as this one in just a couple of youtube vidoes.

[NYCMOBIUS]

I believe there is a god. I just do not know who he is. He could be anyone. Christian, Islam, buddhism, judaism, they could all be right, or only one, or the real god may have nothing to do with these faiths. I don't know. I guess i'll have to wait and find out one day.....

[ProfMTH]

@derekmasses In a nutshell, the former claims not to have knowledge while the latter claims to have knowledge.