RE: Atheism, what led you?
May 7, 2013 at 1:11 pm
(This post was last modified: May 7, 2013 at 1:32 pm by Simon Moon.)
(May 6, 2013 at 5:34 pm)Gearbreak Wrote: WHat led me to being a deist is that I believed in god, but I felt that it was impossible for humans to understand or define it. MOst people here probably find that silly, but that's not my opinion. SO it doesn't matter.
How can you possibly believe in something that you can't even define?
If we accept that 'belief' is defined as 'accepting a proposition as true', if you can't define what you believe in, what are you accepting as true?
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.
