(October 11, 2016 at 1:38 pm)Drich Wrote:(October 8, 2016 at 5:53 am)Czechlervitz29 Wrote: The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins is in audiobook form on youtube. I am enjoying it currently. It makes me mad at my family for raising me catholic and then evangelical. But It makes me feel better that I know how deluded they still are and I am not.
that warmth you are feeling that sense of 'you know better' that dawkins is giving you.. It is also know by the term self righteousness.
enjoy.
So then...
You decided to give us an example of your religious self righteousness.
Well played sir, well played...
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.