RE: What do you respond to this?
October 2, 2015 at 3:33 pm
(This post was last modified: October 2, 2015 at 3:47 pm by Simon Moon.)
(October 2, 2015 at 7:57 am)marianomanto Wrote: "What those fanatics do is not true Catholicism/Islam/etc. They are misinterpreting the texts, any religion well studied will lead you to peace."
The violent adherents of the various religions, are getting their ideas from the same texts the peaceful adherents do.
Of course, both violent and peaceful adherents are cherry picking.
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.
