(December 22, 2012 at 9:05 am)Dr.Barré Wrote: Atheism is the supreme theological reduction and dehumanizes and degrades society by retreating into an ignorance of major philosophical questions regarding the meaning of life. Atheists often express hatred toward theists with impunity.
You claim to be a pantheist. According to http://www.pantheism.net/ , the following is the pantheist position -
Our beliefs and values reconcile spirituality and rationality, emotion and values and environmental concern with science and respect for evidence. They are summarized in our Statement of Principles, which embodies the following basic principles:
1. Reverence, awe, wonder and a feeling of belonging to Nature and the wider Universe .
2. Respect and active care for the rights of all humans and other living beings.
3. Celebration or our lives in our bodies on this beautiful earth as a joy and a privilege.
4. Strong naturalism - without belief in supernatural realms, afterlives, beings or forces.
5. Respect for reason, evidence and the scientific method as our best ways of understanding nature and the Cosmos.
6. Promotion of religious tolerance, freedom of religion and complete separation of state and religion.
Do you agree with that?
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.
