(July 5, 2012 at 1:19 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I would live as if he was real.
(July 5, 2012 at 1:25 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:(July 5, 2012 at 1:19 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I would live as if he was real.Yup +1
Please let us know what this would look like. How would you live your life as if 'he' was real?
Are you only referring to your ethics and how you would live in society and how you'd treat other people?
Or are you saying that you'd continue to obey the dictates of the religious text and perform whatever religious rituals the god you previously believed existed required?
In other words, if you previously believed that premarital sex or eating pork were against your god's laws, and that is the reason you did not partake of either, would you now partake of them? If you previously voted against allowing gay marriage based on Biblical laws, would you change the way you vote?
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.
