(October 11, 2013 at 6:45 pm)Vincenzo "Vinny" G. Wrote:(October 11, 2013 at 6:38 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Something we can actually agree on.
So, Vinny....
I believe you've been asked the following questions several times and I've yet to see you answer.
What do you believe?
If you hold that the premise that a god exists to be true;
1. define the god you believe exists
2. explain why you believe it
3. provide demonstrable evidence that supports your belief
4. explain why we should believe it
How the fuck does 1, 2, 3, and 4 follow from "If you hold that the premise that a god exists to be true;"?
I was defining belief as:
"Contemporary analytic philosophers of mind generally use the term “belief” to refer to the attitude we have, roughly, whenever we take something to be the case or regard it as true." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
If you believe a god exists:
Define it.
Explain why you believe it.
Provide evidence for it.
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.
