> For a positivist, you’re not very strong on logic.
When the ad hominems start I know I'm on the right track
> The rock has no will / The god, real or not, is a being with a will.
How do you know god is a being with a will? This is the fallacy of special pleading. You are defining god and giving it characteristics that precisely allows you to say it is different than something with no will.
> It doesn’t matter if you or I believe praying works, the point is that prayer is talking to a sentient god. Magic spells is not.
Surely you understand that one can know what a “god” is, without taking a position on whether it exists or not? I don’t believe in Thor but I know he has a hammer.
And btw I also studied math, in a special mathematics high school, and then theoretical physics at university. But that doesn’t mean I didn’t also learn rudimentary concepts from anthropology and religious studies.
When the ad hominems start I know I'm on the right track
> The rock has no will / The god, real or not, is a being with a will.
How do you know god is a being with a will? This is the fallacy of special pleading. You are defining god and giving it characteristics that precisely allows you to say it is different than something with no will.
> It doesn’t matter if you or I believe praying works, the point is that prayer is talking to a sentient god. Magic spells is not.
And both are superstition.
> You learn this stuff in middle school.
I went to a school that taught math & science.