RE: Your 3 main reasons
April 19, 2011 at 2:42 am
(This post was last modified: April 19, 2011 at 2:44 am by reverendjeremiah.)
What I am trying to say is what I have been trying to tell the non-religious community for ten years now. It is okay to use emotional arguments. This is what the theists like. This is what the theists use. This is what the theists understand to their core beliefs. All of you "Mr.Spock" atheists (I'm not going to name names, but you know who you are) ramble on about falacies, and arguments from emotions. At the same time you point out the theists depend on arguments from emotion. When will you put the two together and realize that arguments from emotion is how to appeal to the theists? Its not just the "argument of evil". You have to give good examples of why that argument clicks, and appeal to their emotions, for such an argument to work. Sure, emotion doesnt work well in science... outside of psychology and such. Emotion was what turned me from a believer to an atheist. I saw the 9/11 attacks and had an emotional moment that changed me from a doubting Thomas to an atheist. We are all human. We ARE emotional. Welcome to this absurd Cosmos we live in. Emotion IS a factor when it comes to winning the hearts and minds of the people.
