(February 19, 2020 at 2:14 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:(February 19, 2020 at 1:44 am)Ongietan Wrote: Hi Everyone,
I am really interested to hear how you ended up as atheists at this point in your lives. I didn't grow up going to church or in a religious home (though my mom claimed she spoke to spirits), but I had a belief in God from an early age nevertheless. Of all the various beliefs and religious that one can hold to, why has atheism won?
I soon came to the conclusion, that I was not warranted in believing in unsupported god claims anymore, and those beliefs just fell away.
Let me add, that I am open to being convinced that a god exists.
All I require is demonstrable and falsifiable evidence, and valid and sound logic to support the god claim. No theist has ever been able to provide this, so, my disbelief will continue.
And it's not for lack of trying.
I researched the history of the Bible, who wrote it, how it was compiled, etc. I studied logic and epistemology, and understand all the arguments theists use to argue for the existence (cosmological and first cause arguments, arguments from design, presuppositional arguments, etc) are ALL fallacious and flawed.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
