You both speak as if belief is a choice, and not a consequence.
I challenge either of you to stop believing just for 5 minutes. Just let it go, then get it back. Surely if it is a choice, then you can chose it as well.
You speak as if we chose it so we can escape being moral, as if any theist his more moral. What does "take full advantage of living as an unbeliever" even mean? Do you think we commit more sins, perhaps cheat and lie more than you? Bullshit. Do you think life is somehow easier for us? Again, bullshit. It's harder.
I believed for longer than I have not believed. You have no idea how much most atheists who once were believers suffered and tried with all their hearts to go on believing, but simply could not. The stories are here, you read them, and dismiss them.
There is no choice, in this at least (though I think not in anything). Theists must maintain the illusion of choice so you can keep throwing rocks inside that glass house of yours.
I challenge either of you to stop believing just for 5 minutes. Just let it go, then get it back. Surely if it is a choice, then you can chose it as well.
You speak as if we chose it so we can escape being moral, as if any theist his more moral. What does "take full advantage of living as an unbeliever" even mean? Do you think we commit more sins, perhaps cheat and lie more than you? Bullshit. Do you think life is somehow easier for us? Again, bullshit. It's harder.
I believed for longer than I have not believed. You have no idea how much most atheists who once were believers suffered and tried with all their hearts to go on believing, but simply could not. The stories are here, you read them, and dismiss them.
There is no choice, in this at least (though I think not in anything). Theists must maintain the illusion of choice so you can keep throwing rocks inside that glass house of yours.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
