RE: And Hells come back to haunt me
October 26, 2013 at 11:28 am
(This post was last modified: October 26, 2013 at 11:30 am by Simon Moon.)
(October 26, 2013 at 10:50 am)catfish Wrote: Which goes around in circles... Why do you need to know how I interpret things?
Several reasons:
1. you're the one that continually derides us atheists when we use a literal interpretation when debating a Christian who is also using a literal interpretation.
2. you're on here with the intent to debate. Unless we know how you go about interpreting the Bible, we are unable to debate you, because we never can tell if we should debate using literal or non-literal interpretations.
3. unless you can point to a specific method you use to determine how you go about cherry picking, it smacks of intellectual dishonesty. Without knowing your method, your cherry picking seems suspiciously like it could be ad hoc.
When I encounter various claims, I can tell you specifically how I go about determining if believing them is justified or not. I expect most atheists here do.
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.