(October 26, 2011 at 9:32 pm)Selrahc74 Wrote: How does a newly atheist reject all the propaganda and lies that they have been told all their lives and stop trying to match or shoehorn current events into a prophecy that was made 2000 years ago?
Since it seems that you are only worried about succumbing to Christian prophecy, and not prophecy from one of the other many religions, you might want to read a book on the history of the Bible, who wrote it, how it was compiled, how it was edited, passages added, etc.
Check out the writings of Bart Ehrman, Robert Price (former Baptist minister), John Loftus, Hector Avalos (former Pentecostal preacher), Dan Barker (ex-minister). All these guys began to study the Bible and it's origins in order to strengthen their faith, but their research had the opposite effect.
It will demonstrate to you that there is no possible way to take any of the so called prophecies with any amount of credibility.
Then ask yourself why you have no problem easily rejecting the prophecies from other religions.
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.
