(July 11, 2012 at 8:41 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:(July 11, 2012 at 8:37 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: But you are missing another option, not having any belief whatsoever.
Which was stated:
He doesn't believe God exists but doesn't believe he doesn't.
If you meant the same thing that I said, you did it in a very ambiguous and flawed way.
A much better way to say it would be, 'he has no beliefs in the existence of gods'.
On a side note, you may want to look up the word 'deist', because I do not think this word means what you think it means.
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.