RE: Atheists who become Christians
December 24, 2014 at 9:19 pm
(This post was last modified: December 24, 2014 at 9:21 pm by Violet.)
(December 24, 2014 at 9:08 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Both atheist and theist, that I consider to be mentally stable anyway, hold the same belief stance on this. Neither can know.
To you faith may be emotional. To me it isn't.
Rather, anyone can know anything... but they cannot force what they know to also be true; only can they defend or reconsider their beliefs.
(December 24, 2014 at 9:17 pm)abaris Wrote: Neither can know, you're right, but the theist puts his belief in something supernatural. God is by definition supernatural. And I presume, you wouldn't apply the same standards to believing in fairies or gobblins. We can't prove a negative, but we can't prove a positive either.
Hence emotional. It's not backed by facts. It's simply wishful thinking.
Not necessarily. Many could just so well subscribe to the understanding that 'the supernatural' doesn't exist, and attribute it to something not unlike 'planes of existence'.
It can be very very bitter and angry thinking... and it can be utterly empty of emotion.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day