(March 22, 2014 at 11:11 am)edgeoflogic Wrote: Being an atheist I believe in death the great equalizer where we all become dumb as dirt. I also believe in the science of universal expansion where all life will die. So I don’t go around calling people idiots or dumb because that is my future, your future, and the future of all life. The only part of the bible with a little truth is Ecclesiastes.
But we live in the here and the now.
Different varieties of theism have real world, negative consequences.
I don't go around calling theists idiots or dumb, I just point out their beliefs are wrong, or at least unsupported.
I didn't become more intelligent when I became an atheist. I just stopped believing in ridiculous unsupported stories.
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.
