(February 22, 2017 at 6:57 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:(February 22, 2017 at 6:51 pm)Kernel Sohcahtoa Wrote: This is interesting. IMO, it almost seems like religious practitioners are projecting their human failings/shortcomings onto another life-form.
There's a saying, and I don't know who it's by (Hitchens?) which, paraphrased, goes something like, "Isn't it amazing that the god you worship has exactly the same hatreds, the same opinions, the same morals and likes, that you have?"
“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” Anne Lamott
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.
