RE: Burden of Proof
January 10, 2013 at 3:58 pm
(This post was last modified: January 10, 2013 at 3:59 pm by Simon Moon.)
(January 10, 2013 at 3:35 pm)Mark 13:13 Wrote: Or very lucky.
Ah, so your luck allows you to spend eternity in heaven for doing nothing more than believing without evidence, and us unlucky ones get to spend eternity in hell for a finite crime.
What a swell god...
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.