(July 17, 2015 at 4:15 pm)tonechaser77 Wrote:(July 17, 2015 at 2:02 am)SamS Wrote: Has there ever been a Christian argument, or something a Christian said, that made you, for even a split second, question whether your current atheistic stance is right?
Even if the argument turned out to be completely fabricated or disprovable, did it at the very least draw you closer to believing the Bible is God's Word and all that such a belief entails?
If not, has there ever been an argument that you didn't know how to answer, or that surprised you against your expectations?
Not looking for "All Christian arguments are idiotic" replies. This is an honest question.
I consider myself a recent deconvert; within two years. I am probably one of the least deeply logical people I know, simply because it is very cumbersome for me to reason through advanced arguments. (Thank you 30+ years of fundamentalist indoctrination.) Be that as it may, I have yet to hear an argument that after careful consideration would make me reconsider. Even if one existed, there are hundreds of others that have perforations larger than a super-massive black hole.
If there were an actual good argument for the existence of God, don't you think that the religious people would be pushing it hard and making it well-known? Why put forth nonsense when one has actual sense on one's side? The fact that they don't push forward such an argument gives you reason to believe that no such argument exists.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
