(October 1, 2014 at 6:43 pm)Hezekiah Wrote: With all due respect, I've met a lot of intelligent and ignorant people both religious and non-religious. I've graduated from college, so if you're implying I'm a generally stupid person I would argue that I don't know everything, but I'm not void of knowledge all together.
But I'm sure you will agree that even intelligent people with a lot of knowledge may have poor critical thinking skills with regards to their faith based beliefs.
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.