RE: Near death experience of Howard Storm
January 29, 2016 at 11:40 am
(This post was last modified: January 29, 2016 at 11:41 am by Catholic_Lady.)
(January 29, 2016 at 11:33 am)Old Baby Wrote:(January 29, 2016 at 11:22 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: How do you know he was led by emotions? It doesn't say anything about any sort of bad experience he has with religion that made him this way. He just sounds like a very skeptical person.
"...was not a very pleasant man by his own admission. He was an avowed atheist and very hostile to every form of religion and those who practiced it. He would often use rage to control everyone around him and he didn't find joy in anything..."
That's not the description of a regular joe who just concludes that there's no rational reason to believe in God. This describes someone who was hostile to the very notion of a supernatural deity and toward everyone who disagreed with him. This is often how Christians who convert from "atheism" describe themselves. He sounds more like a person who was either afraid/in denial or someone who hated religion because of something from their past.
What??
Lol, from my experience, most atheists here are absolutely hostile to religion. Many are hostile to religious people. I have noticed that you are not one of them, and I have appreciated that.
Anyway, I don't think it would go over too well if you told all of these members that they are emotional and not rational atheists...
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh