(August 22, 2012 at 7:10 am)Brian37 Wrote: Good for him.
However, as the article describes it seems to be an emotional reaction to the death of a friend's friend.
I'm not sure the article describes it that way. Or at least not the way I read it.
The way I read it, it was the phone call from the friend/parishioner that brought his disbelief to the fore, not caused it.
" All he had ever wanted was to be a comfort and a support to the people he grew up with, but now a divide stood between him and them. He could no longer hide his disbelief."
This makes it sound as if he was already a non-believer.
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.
