(June 24, 2014 at 2:39 am)vodkafan Wrote: I woke up this morning. The world is just as it was yesterday. Nothing bad happened as a result of not believing in god. Nothing was sent to punish me.
I didn't feel guilty about anything. Looking at the topics on this forum there are some things I don't know about that I wish I did, like how life and the universe was created, what time is. That would be cool to know those things but I don't need to know them to sail through my day. Life is full of good things. I don't need the religious baggage to weigh me down. Don't need a skydaddy and angels to guide me to be moral. When life has done with me, which I can reasonably expect is not going to be today, I know I will cease to exist and that's fine. Or maybe my mind will exist as a quantum possibility somewhere and that will be cool too....but I will be going where everybody else goes. I am not being judged.
So, now that you accept that there is no celestial judge to judge your deeds, you now feel that you want to become a drug addicted, raping serial killer...right?
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.
