(April 19, 2014 at 1:56 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: If God existed and wanted to tell the world something, you would think he would do it directly.
And he did so all through the Old Testament.
Mysteriously, he stopped. Then he supposedly talked to 'special people' to relay his messages.
If anyone claims to be one of these messengers these days, he or she is considered to be mentally ill. So the question is, how is one to tell the difference between a 'legitimate' messenger of god, and a mentally ill person having delusions?
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.
