RE: what are we supposed to say again when christians ask us where we get our morality?
May 20, 2014 at 5:13 pm
(May 20, 2014 at 4:26 pm)BlackMason Wrote: The question posed by the OP does raise some cause for concern. I don't know who you are but it's kinda strange that you'd have a cheat sheet. To me atheism represents freedom. When you allude to specific things that must be said to certain questions, isn't that a lot like religion all over again?
Perhaps I misunderstand the direction of your post. Are you looking for canned material that mirrors your beliefs that is articulated more eloquently than you can?
Good points.
But this kind of thinking is not new to the OP. His reasons for claiming he is an atheist have been suspect from his first posts here.
As you point out, he is trying to replace on set of dogmatic, doctrine based beliefs with (what he believes) are another.
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.
