(February 18, 2016 at 4:41 pm)robvalue Wrote: Your mother's behaviour makes me sick. I hope there is someone neutral you can go to, because in my opinion this is a clear case of child abuse.
Here is a video series for your mother, Steve Shives ripping that stupid book to pieces.
http://youtu.be/j60-eK5sfwk
Steve Shives does a heroic job reading Christian apologetics books, then refuting them point by point.
He has much more patience for bull shit than I could ever have.
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.