(March 16, 2014 at 6:12 pm)discipulus Wrote: If you all think that is something worth believing in then more power to you.
And therein lies the rub. It's not about what is worth believing in. It's about determining what is true, and no matter how much you complain about how destitute you believe atheism to be, it does nothing to bolster your own beliefs. In fact, it only fosters the image that Christians believe based upon emotion and not reason and facts.
Now, if Christianity has helped you put your life together(I'm skeptical of this simply because this is the favorite apologetic lie), more power to you. But the problem is you're making all kinds of self-righteous claims in this thread, and focusing on how you perceive a conflicting worldview to be gets you no closer to validating these claims and creates the appearance of deflection and avoidance.
All you've been doing is making one big appeal to consequence.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
