(October 5, 2014 at 6:38 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I haven't thought too much about my want of religion to be true. I can tell you my life has been better ever since I left Islam. But I think it might be because I had a false understanding of Islam. I'm not too sure. I don't really want to accept what seem to me to be barbaric laws like cutting fingers off a thief or lashing out on a fornicators/adulterers.
You seem to have a problem with critical thinking.
Determining the truth of something is not related to whether or not you want it to be true.
Your wants do not affect its truth.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.