RE: Former atheist
February 26, 2015 at 8:07 pm
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2015 at 8:07 pm by Simon Moon.)
(February 26, 2015 at 7:58 pm)Heywood Wrote: There was a time in my life when I believed that it was unlikely that God existed. I don't know if the position "God probably does not exist" makes one an atheist.....but if it does then I was an atheist. However I have since shifted 180 degrees and now believe it is very likely that God does indeed exist. I don't believe any particular religion is likely to be "true".
Belief is the psychological state in which one accepts a premise or proposition to be true.
Theism is accepting the premise that a god exists is true, everything else is atheism.
If you did not accept the premise that a god exists to be true, you were an atheist.
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.
