(May 2, 2014 at 5:34 pm)darthbarracuda Wrote: What if I am wrong. What if there is a god who is named YHWH and really does want a relationship with me. What if I'm just missing something. That one puzzle piece that would make everything make sense.
While you were a Christian, how much time did you spend worrying about all the other hells and gods you didn't believe in?
Quote:I'll play devil's advocate and look at the theistic arguments and apologetics and try to put myself in their shoes, and it all goes downhill. Suddenly I feel like thinking rationally is a bad thing, that faith is a good thing, that we just have the "believe" and "accept" and it will all be fine. That god has it all in control.
All their arguments fail. Logic, history, science do not support them.
How is faith a good thing?
Quote:One of the biggest things that bothers me is that I wonder if there's answers out there to atheistic arguments, ones that would destroy atheism. I just haven't come across it yet. All my arguments against Christianity are actually moot, and there's answers for them all. Or that maybe in like 30 years I'll get some crazy divine revelation and suddenly convert and become a Christian.
Theists have been trying to prove the existence of their gods for 1000's of years. All their arguments have been refuted. They have not offered anything new, so there is nothing new to refute.
Christians do not have answers for the all the problems with their unsupported beliefs. They have rationalizations and excuses. Just because they say them with authority, and important sounding words wrapped in important sounding arguments, doesn't mean they're actually answering them.
How do you know you won't get a crazy divine revelation in 30 years and become a Muslim or a Hindu?
Why are you only worried about Christianity?
I feel bad you are going through this. I'm sure you are not alone.
Just keep researching why theist arguments fail. Read books on how Christianity actually started. Not the story that Christians tell.
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.
