(October 16, 2015 at 4:53 pm)Cinjin Wrote:(October 15, 2015 at 5:45 pm)Cinjin Wrote: Come again?
Is Anslem a Star Trek reference? Seriously, you lost me.
Ohhh -
thank you Evie for the clarification. Chad, a quick proof-read might have aided me in deciphering that mess of a post you made. christ. Spelling, grammar, punctuation, hell - even correct word usage ... never mind, I digress.
By your own statement aren't you then implying that your christian god would inevitably fall into a fictional status?
That's where Chad's special pleading enters.
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But seriously, responding to the OP.
Belief is defined by neuroscientists and analytic philosophers of mind as "the psychological state in which one accepts a premise or proposition as being true".
Atheism is the disbelief in the existence of gods.
If you currently do not accept the existence of a god as being true, you are an atheist.
If you believe at least one god exists, you are a theist (deist).
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.
