(September 5, 2013 at 6:39 pm)bladevalant546 Wrote: Well my stance is we cannot fully know if there is a deity or not because our level of knowledge and technology is not advanced enough to tell us. However, more i learn more unlikely there is atleast a diety that is active.
Your first sentence would define you as agnostic.
Your second, as an atheist.
They are not mutually exclusive.
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.
