Originally posted by Hekla
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Two, it's not saying that there must be one true god/pantheon. What it is saying is that there are lots of gods out there, and they all have just as much evidence proving their existence. None. So, it's absolute nonsense to say that your god/s are real and all the other ones are false.
It is not (usually) used as an argument against religion, rather the notion that your beliefs are true and everyone else's beliefs are false. If an atheist is using that argument against a pagan, then they are doing some serious context-dropping.
I favour the Socratic method, just ask people questions about their religion. Why do you believe the things you do? Why is that? Etc... It gets people thinking critically about the nature of belief and why they believe the things they do.
Ultimately much more fruitful, and besides I don't really have any reason to dissuade people from believing what they want to believe. A good conversation is a much better goal, and regurgitating points from Dawkins' latest book is hardly conducive to that end.
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