(March 9, 2013 at 6:39 pm)jstrodel Wrote: The strongest weapons atheist's have against Christians is to severely distort the Christian message, through being ignorant of it themselves.
The strongest weapon atheists have is that the case for the existence of ANY god has not met it's burden of proof.
Before we can even begin to consider the existence of the Christian god, first it has to be established that a god exists. Only then can we begin to examine the attributes of said 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.
