(February 8, 2016 at 10:01 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(February 8, 2016 at 9:47 pm)KUSA Wrote: I don't understand how anyone can worry about being converted.
I am unable to choose what I believe. Someone could talk until they were blue in the face to convince me that Leprechauns are real but it wouldn't work because it is ridiculous. The same applies to a god. It just sounds silly.
Yes, but without knowing the tactics of theists, "that just sounds silly" isn't enough. Plenty of laypersons can scoff at something only later to be sucked into the trap of a slick snake oil salesman. Kid have a better excuse for swallowing it because they are too young to understand the importance of critical thinking. But even adults can basically not care either way, then suddenly have an event that shakes them, to where they feel the need to find "something" to give them a sense they are not alone, even if what they pick is completely false.
And there literally IS a scientific explanation as to why humans gap fill with god claims, and that as well is important to understand as well.
So while Hitchens was right "That which can be asserted without evidence can be easily dismissed without evidence" or the layperson's version "If it sound too good to be true, it probably is", while true, still isn't enough.
I understand what you are saying as I was once a Christian. But now, after actually reading the bible and looking at the facts, I couldn't be converted back without God himself appearing before me.