RE: Somebody Help!
September 29, 2012 at 4:09 pm
(This post was last modified: September 29, 2012 at 4:10 pm by Simon Moon.)
(September 29, 2012 at 2:50 pm)IUsedToBelieve Wrote: Lately, i have started listening to Christian music again, and i even picked up a bible and read a few pages for the first time in a long time. I feel like i am being sucked back into religion. I was just counting my CD's and i have 186 Christian albums and only 89 non-Christian albums. Any advice will be most welcome!
I had this same experience recently.
I was listing to Symphony X 'The New Mythology Suite' and I felt like I was being sucked in to believing in Isis, Amun, Horus and Anubis.
Good thing I followed it up with 'Achilles Last Stand' by Led Zeppelin, so now I am reassured that Zeus is the one true King of Gods.
But seriously. I've heard all sorts of Christian metal, and the lyrics never made me feel compelled to give up everything I know about rational thought, logic, the lack of evidence for the existence of Yahweh or any god, the contradictions in the Bible, etc. etc.
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.
