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Has anyone discovered a successful way to make religious people atheist?
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RE: Has anyone discovered a successful way to make religious people atheist?
(April 11, 2016 at 6:35 pm)Won2blv Wrote:
(April 10, 2016 at 1:19 am)Goosebump Wrote: ...

To claim that atheist "don't have empathy" when reasoning is not realistic. They likely have a great deal. And they don't suspend it to reason. They choose to remove it from their reasoning yet feel it all the same. A great burden none-the-less. To reason, with empathy is a rotten tomato. Sweet and rancid at the same time.

I agree that atheists are not a monolith. Thats why I said that IF they have the goal of making a theist think they should show empathy. I use word empathy not in an emotionally concerned way but just as trying to see things from their (the theist) point of view. Some don't really have a goal in mind. Or they do but they only know how to lob missiles. Atheism is not a religion obviously, so from my point of view as a theist that is de-converting, trying to think in the shoes of a theist and reasoning from that point of view is the most powerful.

You could make the same request of the theist towards the atheist and it still wouldn't quite work. To see theism as a theist requires, I think most if not all atheists would agree, them to employ cognitive dissidence, which is the exact thing the atheist by and large is trying to undo or remove. Likewise a theist would have to remove their own cognitive dissidence to see the atheist point of view and if they did that they'd turn into an atheist.
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RE: Has anyone discovered a successful way to make religious people atheist? - by Goosebump - April 11, 2016 at 7:10 pm

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