(March 3, 2014 at 7:38 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: They aren't opposing your religious stance now are they. The big deal you're making of this makes it obvious your difficulty with pride.
It is pride you must abandon in order to say "I was wrong". But once you say it, you realize that ideas don't define you and can be abandoned once they are shown to be wrong. I think I've sufficiently demonstrated that my ideas are subject to change. Bring some rational arguments supported by evidence and I may reconsider my (lack of) religion. Of course, then it wouldn't be religion since it would be believing in what is proven, right?
Faith, as I pointed out in my edit above, is believing in things without evidence and against all evidence. It too can be eventually discarded with the admission of being wrong but it's a harder process because its very nature resists being easily abandoned in the face of rational arguments.
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
