(August 8, 2020 at 1:25 pm)Brian37 Wrote:Since there's no qualifier of what would convince me, then you can't presume what would convince me. Simple, really.(August 8, 2020 at 11:44 am)Sal Wrote: Hi.
One does not choose their religion. Convictions don't work like choosing an ice cream.
If, someday, I was suffiently convinced that a diety existed, then I would believe that to be true despite what other people's would say.
Anyways, welcome.
Yes and no. It is certainly more forgivable if one is sold a superstition from youth. But if you are an adult and just because you had a "moment" even as an adult you cant explain should not cause one to fall into old mythology. There is also such a thing as willful ignorance.
I've joked in the past that it would take nothing short of brain damage to make me believe in a god. The point is that I don't know what it would take, but I'd know it when I saw it.
Besides, I already have changed my mind on a conviction; I used to believe in God, but the 2 versions of The Ten Commandments in the Bible sent me down a path that made me free from faith.