(November 21, 2017 at 8:01 pm)Cyberman Wrote: It's even worse than that. The way the mythology tells it, you've told your seven-year-old not to touch your gun; then after he disobeyed, as you knew he would, you shot him with it.
You are correct!
I blew the simple analogy. I actually made the Yahweh character seem a tiny bit less immoral than he is in the story.
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.
