(December 14, 2022 at 5:53 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I tend to call myself an atheist out of convenience. Technically, I’m a theological noncognitivist.
Boru
Seems to me, being a theological noncognitivist is still a subcategory of atheism though, right?
After all, whether you feel that the phrase, "god exists" is unintelligible, meaningless, incoherent, it still puts you into the position of not accepting the claim that a god exists.
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.