(November 19, 2014 at 5:59 pm)Lek Wrote: I've debated atheists on this forum who say that atheism is not a belief that God doesn't exist, but rather a belief that God hasn't been proven to exist. I always thought that agnostics believe a god exists, but don't understand the nature of god.
Agnosticism is the position that the existence of a god is unknown or possibly unknowable.
Atheism is the absence of belief that a god exists.
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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.
