(October 14, 2015 at 2:50 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: We understand what you mean, but you need to look at the fact that well over half of us started out as believers.
If all atheists were simply never religious, you might be able to argue that atheism was the result of a refusal to consider the possibility of a god.
But that's just not the reality of it. Even for those who never believed, they understand the concept. They just never found the evidence plausible. For those of us (self included) who did believe, we finally saw that the story we had swallowed in order to start believing in the first place was just too flawed, and we realized that our belief was a matter of deluding ourselves via that story. It's the same way kids stop believing in Santa Claus. When they realize the presents under the tree are actually hidden on the top shelf of mom's walk-in closet, then they put the pieces together and realize it's just a story told to make little kids behave. It doesn't mean they refused to be "open to the possibility", they just recognize the BS at last, and grow up.
i definately think people should live in truth and be honest and speak what they really believe i just think to close your mind due to frustration isnt going to advance truth and personal growth
Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today
Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you will join us And the world will be as one - John Lennon
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also - Mark Twain

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also - Mark Twain