(January 6, 2016 at 9:47 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(January 6, 2016 at 9:45 pm)abaris Wrote: In response, I cna only repeat what I said earlier. I'm amazed that anyone, who doesn't lock themselves out from our scientific knowledge, can believe in any of the scripted gods. We're talking about a gap of 4,5 billion years and give or take 3000 years after all.
Touche. You cannot fathom anyone having different experiences than you and coming to different conclusions than you, unless that person was some sort of unthinking idiot or something.
I can 100% fathom it. I'm not an unthinking idiot and for many years I was a theist. The notion that everyone who believes in God is an unthinking idiot is one of the most ignorant ideas going around in the atheist community. My conclusion was just as set in stone as any believer's, but things changed for me and I moved to a different conclusion. It happens.
