I always find that "in the real world" people seem to live under a rock. Their arguments and train-of-thought are very inconsistent and irritating to have to deal with.
I remember last semester at uni when I was still a closet non-believer, I was sitting at the cafeteria with two Christian friends and the uni "pastor" who runs a weekly Christian meeting for anyone interested. One of my friends was having a hard time understanding why some people don't believe in Noah's flood: "Noah would have easily been able to build an ark big enough for all the animals, right? I mean it wouldn't have been that hard!" The amount of assumptions they subconsciously grant themselves just makes my head spin. This is why after my first 300+ comment debate on Facebook I promised myself never to speak my mind to the same depth that I do on here, because people aren't trained in basic logical fallacies, they haven't been exposed to fundamental issues of both sides... basically they simply aren't "mature" enough in the theist/atheist debate to efficiently debate like people on here do.
I remember last semester at uni when I was still a closet non-believer, I was sitting at the cafeteria with two Christian friends and the uni "pastor" who runs a weekly Christian meeting for anyone interested. One of my friends was having a hard time understanding why some people don't believe in Noah's flood: "Noah would have easily been able to build an ark big enough for all the animals, right? I mean it wouldn't have been that hard!" The amount of assumptions they subconsciously grant themselves just makes my head spin. This is why after my first 300+ comment debate on Facebook I promised myself never to speak my mind to the same depth that I do on here, because people aren't trained in basic logical fallacies, they haven't been exposed to fundamental issues of both sides... basically they simply aren't "mature" enough in the theist/atheist debate to efficiently debate like people on here do.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
