Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?

[AceBoogie]

It's interesting that the experiences are almost always interpreted in such a way that they reinforce beliefs that are already held. Christians experience Christian miracles. Muslims experience Islamic miracles. They'd probably come to those conclusions about the same event.

And whatever way you slice it, millions of people are wrong in their interpretations due the contradictory nature of different religions.

It's interesting because I've had a friend of mine, on multiple occasions, defend his claim that he saw a UFO with the same zeal that a religious person would defend their claim of 'feeling god' when they go to church or something.

There is something in human nature about reaffirming previously held ideas and beliefs that tends to appear in all of us at one point or another. I think many of the skeptical thinkers of the world tend to overcome this need to reaffirm the old model, so to speak, and learn that if something happens that doesn't fit the model, it is the model (or our thinking) that needs to change to fit reality, not the other way around.

Most people, however, do not think like this.

If my dear friend sees lights traveling across the sky, he immediately identifies these unidentified flying objects as extraterrestrial life forms zipping about in spacecraft because, well, he already believes that extraterrestrial life forms visit our planet on a regular basis! So it cannot be that the lights zooming across the horizon are shooting stars, military aircraft, satellites or something, because those perceptions of the events he witnessed do not fit the old model.

It's very interesting that humans do this and this is where I find 'experiences of god' or miracles to be no different from any other perceived supernatural phenomena.

 

That was incredibly rude.

Wow I was only kidding... I don't actually think someone being a catholic makes them unattractive.