(October 19, 2016 at 5:15 pm)Irrational Wrote:(October 19, 2016 at 4:47 pm)Lek Wrote: I'm not "special" because I'm going to have an afterlife, but rather because unlike all other creatures on earth, I'm made in the image of God. Having an afterlife is one result of being in God's image, but even if it wasn't I would still be special because God made me to be special.
Quite a number of fallacies there.
I'm shocked!
Lek guilty of fallacies?!
Tell me it ain't so...
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.