RE: Convert me!
September 1, 2012 at 5:27 pm
(This post was last modified: September 1, 2012 at 5:28 pm by Simon Moon.)
(September 1, 2012 at 5:16 pm)Stimbo Wrote:Colonel Robert Ingersoll Wrote:Give me the storm and stress of thought and action rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith. Banish me from Eden when you will but first let me eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.
May be going off on a slight tangent but seemed to fit.
Great quote.
I don't think it's going off topic, since the OP was asking if there was something in atheism that would replace, "An easy answer to lifes hard questions, a(broadly) functional moral code to live by, and something to cuddle when I get afraid of the dark (metaphysically speaking)".
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.
