(May 21, 2015 at 12:15 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: I wish more theists were like him.
I'd just ask him..what about the beliefs he holds in his religion that...can't be tested (or verified or falsified) by investigation? What basis would he have for holding those beliefs, and isn't accepting a conclusion before sufficient evidence has been provided...kind of the definition of unscientific?
I wish more were like that, too. They're so passive about religion that I thought they only took me to church because that's just what parents do where they're from. I had to outright ask them to find out they actually consider themselves Christians.
There are several questions I'd like to ask him, but we don't discuss personal things like religion in my family. And since it's such a non-issue, I have no reason to probe further if they don't want to bring it up.
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
