(February 1, 2014 at 2:25 am)Asimm Wrote: Most of us came from a religious background before becoming an Atheist. We were open to the possibility that god didn't exist, thus questioning our beliefs before coming to our conclusion. Why would we go back to a church for even a trial run when we cancelled our membership from basically the same experiment your implementing.
This. And, I'd like to add that having an open mind, doesn't mean letting everything into it. Without some sort of filter to weed out the nonsense, there is no immunity to deception. You don't believe something because it makes you feel good. That's a bias. You believe something because you think it's true. And it either is, or it isn't. I would be interested if you could show that it's true, whether or not it makes you feel good is of little importance to my epistemology. I am interested in more reliable processes for discovering truth.
