Quote:I have to disagree with this. For some questions a perfectly appropriate response is 'I don't know', 'I suspend judgement until I have more facts', etc. Some questions lend themselves to a binary answer; such as, "As a human, do you have a belly button?". In this case the don't know/suspend judgement reply is as silly as the 'no' reply.
I do not disagree with much of what you stated.
But your responses of "I don't know", "I suspend judgement until I have more facts", etc still means that you have no beliefs in whatever the claim is you are responding to.
Either one has a belief, or one doesn't. It could be a strong belief or a weak belief, but it is still a belief. If you are answering, "I don't know" or "I suspend judgement until I have more facts", then you are in the state of not having the belief.
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.