(June 6, 2013 at 4:11 pm)ronedee Wrote: You atheists are a real moral bunch. While society as a whole crumbles before your eyes...you try to take down the only inkling left in the world relating to any kind of values!
Well , yeah, atheists are moral.
Society is not crumbling.
The countries with the highest atheist populations (Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark) are among the best in the world with regards to: low crime rates, high education rates, poverty rates, low infant mortality, health care, upward mobility rates.
There is quite a bit of evidence that the 20th/21st century has a lower rate of violence as a percentage of population than any century in history.
Crime rates have been constantly falling in western societies over the last couple of decades.
You are letting you confirmation bias get in the way of the facts.
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.
