(January 3, 2020 at 4:52 pm)Lek Wrote:(January 3, 2020 at 12:23 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: There is nothing about atheism that precludes in being open to possibilities.
Atheism is just not being convinced that gods exist.
I am completely open to being convinced that a god exists.
You're one of the few atheists I have encountered in this forum who truly seems to be open to the existence of God and/or the supernatural. It's my personal opinion that you'll find what you're looking for.
Let me clarify my position a bit.
While I may be looking for little 't' truth, I am not looking for a god or gods, anymore than I am looking for garden fairies or unicorns. I don't expect to find any of them.
Theists have been presenting their case for the existence of some god or another for several thousand years, and their case continues to get weaker, not stronger.
Their 'evidence' does not hold up to scrutiny, their philosophical arguments (Kalam, teleological, ontological, transcendental) are all fallacious. And the best you can do, is present a personal experience, which can not be differentiated from: delusion, misinterpretation of an unusual but otherwise natural brain state, or some other unidentified natural event. In fact, you can't even show us the method you used to eliminate all possible natural causes for your experience.
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.
