(July 19, 2017 at 1:20 pm)*Deidre* Wrote: Today's been a rough day. I'm thinking about my grandmother and some of the bad parts of my childhood and coming to terms with it, faith-free. That's weird to no longer convince myself that all this pain is for a grand plan of God. It's ok to hurt and feel the pain of losing someone important and not finding excuses for it. More progress
I believe we can all empathise.
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.
