(December 29, 2015 at 7:40 pm)Heat Wrote:(December 29, 2015 at 5:33 pm)Napoléon Wrote: I always miss the best threads. Can someone post a TL: DR?(December 28, 2015 at 11:34 pm)Heat Wrote: Once upon a time a lion decided to venture out of his den. The lion did not anticipate that his prey would be directly next to a bear cave. The lion attempted to gently back away and apologize for intruding, remaining nearly silent, however it was too late, the lion made the same stupid mistake again and ended up backing in to a hunter's bear trap that was set not ten feet away from the bear cave, and was consequently violently trapped by it's stupidity while all the bears hurdled around the lion stuck in the trap and gently pawed at it, taunting, laughing on the inside as it stood there trapped with no where to go, as it finally met its inevitable doom.
I don't understand your metaphor.
I'm just a stupid atheist.
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.
