(September 25, 2017 at 2:54 pm)SteveII Wrote:(September 24, 2017 at 9:51 pm)beepete Wrote: Hating other people that hold a different view will probably only confirm prejudices on both sides. I'm a Christian and for years refused to look at opposing views. Recently I have started watching videos by Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and a few others and it has been both eye-opening and challenging (in a positive sense). So far I have not seen them attacking the holders of certain beliefs but rather the beliefs themselves. Clearly, these men have a superior intellect to mine - but they don't attack or hate others for not being as clever as they so obviously are. Hating religious people will probably only confirm them in their belief system.
Beepete--welcome to the warm and fuzzy AF where atheist win converts because they foster respectful discourse and win people on the merits of their points.
I too came here to look for the opposing viewpoint to Christianity. I wanted to make sure there were no unanswered objections. It turns out, there are none. There is nothing new in any modern argument against Christianity that has not been addressed before--sometimes addressed millennium ago. Most atheists here argue against a long series of straw men--caricatures of Christianity that don't exist in the real world.
I'm curious. What Harris/Hitchens argument do you think is their most successful?
Yes, and welcome to the place where some people, for some reason, think we're trying to convert people. And meet Steve II, who somehow thinks that evidence that show people believe in the bible is the same as evidence that the bible is the word of god.
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing." - Samuel Porter Putnam
