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> In this case god-hating atheists confirm the existence of god in the form of ‘concept’ you may say.

The existence of a concept is not the same thing as the existence of the thing the concept refers to.



> The existence of a concept is not the same thing as the existence of the thing the concept refers to.

Yes it is, for most of the average Joe believers the concept of god is the god, since they never faced any other kind of god in their life.

The same with zombies - if you afraid of them => they definitely exist _at least_ in your head! Otherwise what the hell exactly are you afraid of?


> > > The existence of a concept is not the same thing as the existence of the thing the concept refers to.

> Yes it is

No, it's not.

> for most of the average Joe believers the concept of god is the god, since they never faced any other kind of god in their life.

This...requires the assumption that God does not exist (in re, if we must, since you seem to insist on the archaic, Anselm-like insistence that existence in intellectu is a real thing and that material existence is a predicate), but, even ignoring that giant problem with one premise, that's not true. I may have a concept of a robber who robbed my house when no such robbery actually occurred in the material universe, but the existence of they concept doesn't mean that a robber who robbed my house exists even if I have had no experience of a material robber only the concept, it means the concept refers to a thing that does not exist.

Ditto with concepts of God to the extent that God does not exist.


So what? You still can’t hate the robber if he doesn’t exist at least in your imagination, right?




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