RE: Why You Should Be Atheist
October 11, 2013 at 7:30 pm
(This post was last modified: October 11, 2013 at 7:33 pm by Simon Moon.)
(October 11, 2013 at 7:26 pm)Vincenzo "Vinny" G. Wrote: I've tried to discuss my views before, but I usually hit a wall of ignorance with many of the atheists around here. They lack familiarity with science, philosophy, epistemology, logic, mathematics, and many of the fields that my views build on. Given their lack of familiarity, their responses amount to hysterical skepticism firing blindly in all directions, like one recent poster who dismissed logic as a means of arriving at knowledge "as a house of cards". Doesn't strike me as a worthwhile pursuit unless people are capable of exercising critical thinking skills and looking new things up to learn about them.
Explaining the rigorous use of reason to an atheist is like explaining quantum mechanics to the amish.
Why the hell did you want me to express my post as a request if you weren't going to answer it?
Could you at least point me to a thread where you already went over your views?
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.
