(May 13, 2015 at 11:09 pm)nicanica123 Wrote: Hey all. Quick question, I can honestly say that one reason why I don't want to be a god fearing person anymore is that I just want to live life how I want to live it. I am married. I love my wife, but we were way young when we got married. If I was an absolute atheist, whatever that means, I would definitely come clean to her and probably get a divorce. Is this a bad driving force?
You seem to have some major misconceptions on what atheism is.
Try this.
Belief is the psychological state in which one accepts a premise or proposition is true.
If you currently believe that at least one god exists (accept the premise to be true), you are a theist. Any thing else is atheism.
Do you currently accept the premise that a god exists? If you answer anything else besides 'yes', you are an atheist.
You seem to want to attach a lot of baggage to atheism that does not belong.
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.
