(June 19, 2015 at 7:05 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: "Johnny, Suzie...you're both old enough now to know that mommy and daddy believe a certain set of myths about a being that cannot be proved regardless of our best efforts to do so, and we freely admit that these beliefs are both confusing and contradictory in relation to the claims of other myths being taught by other parents around the world. When you're older, we hope you will choose to embrace these fables, but we will certainly understand if you choose to become an atheist instead."
70% of the rest of humanity teaches their children a religion that you most probably consider wrong (full of myth and superstition).
But you are unable to see that yours is really no different.
And you even know this is true, because if you were born in Iran to Muslim parents, you would now be a Muslim, arguing Muslim aplogetics. You would believe Islam is true just as strongly as you now believe Catholicism is. And you would be supporting your beliefs with the same sort of flawed logic and holy text quotes.
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.
