(December 13, 2014 at 5:45 pm)robvalue Wrote: Wait... He used the worst method imaginable, because he knew people are so stupid it would work anyway?
That's pretty twisted, even for an ad-hoc. Also doesn't say much of his opinion of his followers.
It does seem like the Biblical 'Yahweh' character wants Heaven to be filled with the gullible and the credulous, like His_Majesty.
Yahweh praises faith (the least effective method of discerning fact from fiction), not evidence and reasoned argument.
John 20:29 "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
And this is supposed to be a good thing.
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.
