Your friend is a moron.
Oh, I get it. Since the Nietzsche quote he posted agrees with his bigoted view of atheists, Nietzsche must be the honest one.
And any atheist that says something that does no agree with his bigotry, must be dishonest.
Confirmation bias at its most obvious.
Quote:Nietzsche was one of the worlds most known and influential atheist philosophers, and this is what he thinks of human value. I'm not going to lie, he is much more honest than these "New Atheists" (Dawkins, Harris, Dennet, Hitchens). From their standpoint, they have no right to claim human equality. This is where atheism gets us."
Oh, I get it. Since the Nietzsche quote he posted agrees with his bigoted view of atheists, Nietzsche must be the honest one.
And any atheist that says something that does no agree with his bigotry, must be dishonest.
Confirmation bias at its most obvious.
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.