The human mind is quite easy to fool.
Put a person under the duress of a loved one dying, and you have the perfect mental environment for seeing something that is not there, or misinterpreting something that is there. Especially with a believer.
It's called 'confirmation bias'.
Put a person under the duress of a loved one dying, and you have the perfect mental environment for seeing something that is not there, or misinterpreting something that is there. Especially with a believer.
It's called 'confirmation bias'.
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.
