(April 18, 2015 at 3:20 pm)Brian37 Wrote: No my mind is not closed. Open minds are why we got men to the moon. Open minds are why blacks are no longer slaves.As you didn't get men to the moon or free any slaves, how does this show that you have an open mind?
Quote:You are the one who has closed your mind and pinned the hopes of your own future on an old book of myth written by bronze age scientifically ignorant men who didn't know any better.So to you, an open mind is one which only believes what it can see, and a closed mind is one which is willing to consider things beyond what it sees.
Closed minded is clinging to a book that looks more like a fairy tale with talking snakes, talking donkeys, talking bushes, men magically popping out dirt. Would you suddenly believe in Harry Potter if someone quoted that book to explain air flight with brooms?
Got it.
Quote:So according to you, your god character puts humans as his property?Yes.
Quote:Ok, so to him you are like a house or a car or a building?No. We begin that way, but those that believe are made sons and daughters, and joint heirs with Christ.
Quote:I am not an object so if you want claim that that alone would prevent me from worshiping such a being,If you worship him, then you're no longer owned, but become family.
Quote:not that you even have any scientific evidence for one in any case.So your mind is closed to anything you can't prove scientifically.
Oh wait, I forgot...you think this means you have an open mind for some reason.