Quote Originally Posted by Rhabbi View Post
Tom, if you were truly an apatheist, we would not be having this discussion, because you would not care what I believed.



If this was truly your belief system you would simply let me believe what ever I wanted, and refuse to discuss it because it is totally irrelevant. I feel this way about some things, and I let people talk about them without any input from me.

All those people who believe in a massive conspiracy behind the JFK assassination are totally free to believe whatever they want. I do not even discuss it with them because I know their views have absolutely no impact on my life or society in general. That is the approach you would take if you truly believed what you claimed to believe, but because my faith actually conflicts with yours, whatever it actually is, you feel the need to argue your point of view. Just something to think about.
There's plenty of sub categories of Apatheism. Aparently I care enough to have this discussion, don't I? As I said, these definitions have all evolved in relation to Christianity and that's why they have the wording they do.

My interpretation is that I don't give any credibility to theories which are indistinguishable from fantasy. I don't care about them if you will. If a Christian says that they'll go to heaven when they die but refuse to show any evidence for it that I can in any way corroborate....well...then there's not much to have a discussion about. The Christian in this case has based a decision on faulty reasoning derived from incomplete evidence.