RE: Article about clergy who became atheists
April 19, 2017 at 5:25 pm
(This post was last modified: April 19, 2017 at 6:34 pm by Simon Moon.)
(April 19, 2017 at 3:59 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I don't know....why they all give it up.
Most of them give it up because they no longer believe it is true. Pure and simple.
Think about it. Most of Clergy that no longer believe are putting themselves in the position of, no longer having a source of income, most likely will be alienated by their friends, family, members of their church, etc.
Why would anyone put themselves through any of that? For them, their intellectual honesty is more important to them than all they might lose.
But I'm sure, if they only heard one of your arguments, you could convince them to believe again.
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.
