(January 3, 2014 at 10:50 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Let me try this another way. What clearly defined group do you feel represents the consensus of which you speak?
Why would it have to be a clearly defined group?
The consensus that brought an end to slavery in the US were not clearly a defined group of people. They were simply people in all walks of life that came to the moral conclusion that enslaving another group of people was immoral.
The way they came to this conclusion was a combination of empathy, rationality, and critical thought.
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.
