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A Thought Experiment for Believers and Atheists Alike
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RE: A Thought Experiment for Believers and Atheists Alike
October 9, 2017 at 7:53 pm
(October 9, 2017 at 8:20 am)MysticKnight Wrote: Maybe that's due to the mess of history we have. Clean slate, we might be forced to rely on reason more objectively?


If you correctly applied reason to your god beliefs, they would melt away.

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.
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RE: A Thought Experiment for Believers and Atheists Alike - by Simon Moon - October 9, 2017 at 7:53 pm

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