(February 6, 2015 at 3:22 pm)TheMessiah Wrote: Well, the arguments I encountered were truly and wholeheartedly dreadful. Utter nonsense.
How many 'believers' argue on this forum? Either way, I'm here to stay but just curious.
I think no matter how well-thought and articulated a religious belief is it's going to eventually reduce to utter nonsense, so the only true way to avoid it is to avoid debating religious people altogether.
We have a few resident theists, and they never cease to amaze me with using their poor reasoning skills to defend the most henious aspects of the bible. I have to take it in small doses lest I go insane.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell