(March 22, 2013 at 1:52 pm)apophenia Wrote: Mmmmmm... no. I don't think so.
Wikipedia Wrote:"In many cultures rape is treated as a crime against the victim's husband."
Those cultures wouldn't happen to be the ones that let their religious dogma override their natural inclinations to be empathetic, would they?
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.