(January 4, 2013 at 9:43 am)Mark 13:13 Wrote: my primary motivation will be HOPE, even if that HOPE is that I may cause some new members or even old not quite so sure of their position to keep questioning it. Of course if you guys are worried I might succeed then then don't tolerate me , KICK ME out, until then I'm here, enjoy it
The only way you could succeed is to provide us with demonstrable evidence and reasoned argument to support your claim that a god exists.
What else do you think would get us to question our position?
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.