RE: My follow up to my other thread...
May 26, 2015 at 10:46 pm
(This post was last modified: May 26, 2015 at 10:48 pm by Simon Moon.)
(May 24, 2015 at 12:17 am)nicanica123 Wrote: Thats funny because neither do I! Its not about it being a fucking revelation. I came to this site hoping to find reasonable "free thinkers" that could help me logically reason why I don't need to believe in god. Instead I found a bunch of emotional arguments that are always lacking and usually fall short of being logical. Not saying I haven't gotten a lot of good info and resources along with it. But its the dipshits that think they're intellectually superior because they're an ideologue of Richard Dawkins or any other "free thinker" that I get sick of hearing from
Here's part of your problem.
Atheism has very little to do with reasons why you don't 'need to believe in god', logical or otherwise.
The vast majority of atheists are such because the case for the existence of a god has not met its burden of proof. Not wanting or needing to believe in a god or not, has almost nothing to do with it. It is purely a byproduct of skepticism.
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.
