(December 16, 2019 at 9:00 am)Klorophyll Wrote:(December 16, 2019 at 8:41 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: That's kind of an odd assessment. I don't support the death penalty for anyone for anything.
Boru
I meant that nonreligious people tend to judge entire religions by very superficial criteria.
You do understand that atheists disbelief in the existence of ALL gods, even deist or pantheist gods, not just those gods associated with specific religions, right?
The only criteria I have to use, is has a god been demonstrated to exist. Until that occurs, I don't care what individual religions claim.
It doesn't require the assessment of specific religions to understand that NO god has ever been demonstrated to exist. In fact, religious leaders, holy texts, believers claims, can all be dismissed, until a god is demonstrated to exist. Only after a god is demonstrated to exist, can we then begin to try to discern if it a god of a specific religion, and described in any religious book.
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.
