(May 27, 2015 at 1:19 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: There's at least one honest atheist here...So Huggy, am I being dishonest when I say that I don't murder because I don't want to?
https://atheistforums.org/thread-32313-p...#pid906588
Or is the only honest atheist position is that the only reason not to murder is because of fear of the legal consequences?
As Penn Gillette has said, "I do rape all I want. And the amount I want is zero. And I do murder all I want, and the amount I want is zero".
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.
