(October 25, 2013 at 11:13 am)catfish Wrote: But anyways, I still find it amusing that atheists tend to stick to a literal reading, it leads to good stuff.
I still find it amusing that you claim to have a working heuristic that you utilize in order to discern which parts should be taken literally and which parts shouldn't. And yet, it differs so drastically from so many of the other 30,000 sects of Christianity. And you all claim to have the truth.
Unfortunately, it doesn't lead to good stuff. It leads to: wars, witch burning, slavery, praying for children to get better instead of taking them to the hospital, the teaching of pseudoscience in public schools...
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.
