It takes vulgar amounts of confidence to claim you’re smarter than everybody else.
Few come out and say it because they know it sounds crass and arrogant.
But because they are crass and arrogant, they cannot help but say it.
So our intellectual betters say it indirectly believing the rest of us are too stupid to interpret the message.
Being smarter than everybody often leads to a lack of belief in God.
This lack of belief is justified by a lack of evidence for God’s existence.
The lack of evidence is caused by the lack of a definition of what qualifies as evidence.
The lack of definition is justified by the lack of interest in spending any time researching fictional beings like Santa, Fairies, and God.
Thomas Aquinas put forth some evidence for God way back in the 13th century.
The First Way: Argument from Motion
- Our senses prove that some things are in motion.
- Things move when potential motion becomes actual motion.
- Only an actual motion can convert a potential motion into an actual motion.
- Nothing can be at once in both actuality and potentiality in the same respect (i.e., if both actual and potential, it is actual in one respect and potential in another).
- Therefore nothing can move itself.
- Therefore each thing in motion is moved by something else.
- The sequence of motion cannot extend ad infinitum.
- Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a first mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God.
The Argument from Motion has been around for centuries because…
…nobody as smart as The Spartan has taken a serious look at it.

Because I’m not as smart as the Spartan, I can’t see the fallacy in the argument.
It seems to me (and thousands of other people throughout history) to be logically solid.

Clearly, I don’t understand evidence.
Neither did Thomas Aquinas.
Thank God for the lack of evidence for the existence of God!
I can shed the ancient superstitions of logic and put my faith in the ramblings of anonymous bloggers.
Or, I can revisit some writings that predate Aquinas.
The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
Day to day pours out speech,
and night to night reveals knowledge.
There is no speech, nor are there words,
whose voice is not heard.
Their voice[b] goes out through all the earth,
and their words to the end of the world.…The fool says in his heart, “There is no God”.
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Do you know what’s EVEN MORE arrogant than whatever Sklyjd just said?
Eating banana peppers on Saturdays.
Agreed.
It doesn’t seem to matter what we write, does it.
That’s because you’re arrogant. Even more arrogant than jellyfish and cross-stitchers.
I mean THAT arrogant!
Pot calling the kettle arrogant.
Put that in your hookah.
“The heavens declare the glory of God,”
Great indisputable evidence why would anyone doubt? of course, the heavens and God are the complete answer to everything, our universe and existence…..we are such fools if we do not believe this.
LOL!
You’re welcome to comment anytime.
The really extra smart people totally believe in a Prime Mover. Nature, aliens, stars, the illuminati are all valid evidence of a Prime Mover. The Prime Mover just has to be Anybody But God.
The most telling thing about these atheists is their obvious lack of legitimate citations for their beliefs. You know what’s more arrogant than thinking you’re smarter than anyone else? Thinking you got their on your own.
Oh ouch. Good one. 🙂
Do you know what’s even more arrogant than thinking you’re smarter than anyone else? It is believing in the impossible because you were told to.
Actually sklyjd, it’s more lazy than arrogant. For instance, most people who believe evolution do so because their fifth grade science teacher or Bill Nye told them it’s true, even though evolution forces one to think it’s possible to add by subtracting. Impossible? Of course. But it’s believed on a lazy acceptance of authority. If evolutionists took the time and effort to think about their faith in Darwinism the way John Branyan has thought about his faith in Jesus, they would be Christians too and Darwin would go the way of any other superstition. The way of the dodo.
I’d rather live in a world where the impossible is a possibility than a world where everything is just the way atheists say it is.
Wait, did Spartan NEVER actually point out what he perceived as the fallacy? Really? That is too perfect!
You’ll have to read the comments for yourself. In his mind, he clearly explained his position and since I don’t understand evidence, I am not qualified to answer your question.