(May 11, 2015 at 3:20 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: Don't get your hopes up. "Unaffiliated" does not mean "atheist."
It's not the belief in a god that is the problem, it is adherence to dogmas that is the problem.
I don't remember reading too many news stories about 'religiously unaffiliated' Planned Parenthood bombers, the 'religiously unaffiliated' flying planes into building, or chopping the heads off of those that aren't 'religiously unaffiliated'.
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.