RE: The advantages of being Atheist
March 26, 2014 at 1:29 pm
(This post was last modified: March 26, 2014 at 1:56 pm by Simon Moon.)
(March 25, 2014 at 4:45 pm)Thunder Cunt Wrote: I'm hoping this could be an insightfull nonflaming thread where Atheists share the freedom, joy, peace, wisdom, and growth that they received as a result of a conversion to Atheism.
Please tell what has improved in your life and how Atheism benefits those who know you and society at large.
Thank you!
Intellectual honesty.
Having an internal mental model that most likely maps more accurately to reality.
The fact that an evil god such as Yahweh almost certainly does not exist.
EDIT: atheist does is not written with an upper case 'A'. And there is no such thing as 'conversion to atheism'. It is an incoherent statement.
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.
