(February 16, 2013 at 7:04 pm)chasingthetruth Wrote: It's clear what i was asking, why are you an atheist?
Then why didn't you just ask it that way?
Why the need for making it a loaded question?
If you asked that way, you would have probably received more interesting answers. You also would not have come off like an asshat.
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.