(March 12, 2015 at 8:47 am)ChadWooters Wrote: And I suppose you have a litmus test for No True Atheist...You're just incensed by the idea that maybe atheism isn't as compelling as YOU think it is.
Atheism is only compelling when it's reached for the right reason, and if this was all the evidence he needed, I don't think he was as rational and logical as he thinks he was.
His conclusion is extremely self-centered given that God was inactive when it came to stopping the molestation, but all of sudden god feels the need to intervene when it comes to bringing him into the fold by having a little girl speak up about abuse.
This is just another case of ego overriding rationality and a man claiming to be rational but willing to abandon reason at a moment's notice.
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
