RE: A simple challenge for atheists
January 16, 2015 at 7:59 pm
(This post was last modified: January 16, 2015 at 8:01 pm by Simon Moon.)
(January 16, 2015 at 7:36 pm)bob96 Wrote: This is why the year is "2015". We count the years from the birth of Christ.
I hope you don't believe that the present calendar, the one that dates the present year as 2015, dates back to Jesus' time.
It wasn't introduced until 1582, and it wasn't adopted by over half of Europe until more than a century later. Britain didn't adopt it until 1752.
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.