(November 22, 2015 at 6:37 pm)Thena323 Wrote: You dismiss the notion of soulmates as a flight of fancy, for obvious reasons. You also believe that emotion and sentiment have a tendency to hamper proper decision-making.
Why? Because you're a skeptic and choose to employ a realistic approach to life, as to one entrenched in idealistic thinking. It wouldn't take much of a stretch for someone to assume that you don't put much stock in the expression of softer emotions, though they could very well be wrong.
Are are you still open to feeling and demonstrating romantic love, in spite of your inclinations?
Just because most atheists value logic, reason and rationality when it concerns existential claims, does not mean we avoid emotions such as romantic love and feeling in other aspects of out lives.
Emotions are non-rational, not irrational.
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.
