(August 16, 2015 at 3:25 pm)Thena323 Wrote: [...] I'm sincerely interested in understanding what reading religious texts "with an open heart" actually means to theists.
"Heart" is religious twit-speak for "ar*e". In order to accept any holy book - one must be ready and willing to be f***ed. Figuratively speaking... for the most part.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw