(March 16, 2015 at 9:45 pm)Dontsaygoodnight Wrote: I personally believe that knowing what is true and why can be a benefit.
Enough that you would abandon your beliefs if they were shown to be false?
Look, we get that what you perceive to be the truth is important to you but you're acting like we don't get a constant flow of religious people here foaming at the mouth to show the atheists the light. It gets frustrating, because, just like in this thread, it's done under the assumption that we are completely ignorant as to what religion has to offer.
We're not atheists simply because we haven't heard of Jesus, you know, and you'll get a better reception from people in general if you make less assumptions.
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
