RE: 9-year old girl hearing voices of the Devil.
July 18, 2016 at 3:10 pm
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2016 at 3:11 pm by Simon Moon.)
(July 17, 2016 at 10:31 am)Drich Wrote: What makes you (all poopers) Think that you all would not have been in the crowd that mocked Columbus, demand Galileo's death, told the wright bros they should stick to fixing bikes???
Because those things can be supported by evidence. A girl claiming that a supernatural being is telling her to commit suicide is not.
Quote:Look at HOW you dismiss what I said... You take what is known and understood about the world and like every group i mentioned wrongly assumed that Humanity has complete mastery and understanding of the subject being discussed... (which they did till those men changed the world around them.. But you like the rest equip with nothing else you make proclamations concerning thing you can not understand. declare the world to be 'flat.'
No one is claiming that humanity has complete mastery and understanding of any subject. Just that we do know, all the evidence always points to mental illness in cases like these.
Quote:Now honestly ask yourself if you are not willing to consider anything you do not already accept, how will you ever grow? How is this considered to be an 'open mind?'
Open minded is not the same as gullibility.
I am very open minded, to anything that can be supported by demonstrable and falsifiable evidence, and sound and valid logic.
Are you willing to consider a Muslim's claim that they are hearing the voice of Iblis telling them to kill himself/herself as actually being Iblis? You want to grow, right?
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.
