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Another holy man leaves fold.
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  (August 22, 2012 at 7:10 am)Brian37 Wrote: Good for him. I'm not sure the article describes it that way. Or at least not the way I read it. The way I read it, it was the phone call from the friend/parishioner that brought his disbelief to the fore, not caused it. " All he had ever wanted was to be a comfort and a support to the people he grew up with, but now a divide stood between him and them. He could no longer hide his disbelief." This makes it sound as if he was already a non-believer. 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. (August 22, 2012 at 2:27 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:I hope so. I have seen this script before from alleged de converts. In any case death in life is not a good reason to accept or reject a god claim, although it does punch holes in the "perfect" "omni" claim and also makes this alleged claimed being seem to be inept, cherry picking, or outright malicious.(August 22, 2012 at 7:10 am)Brian37 Wrote: Good for him. 
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
 RE: Another holy man leaves fold.
August 22, 2012 at 7:18 pm
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2012 at 7:19 pm by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
Quote: emotional reactions causing a shift of position is not the core reason to reject any claim. Indeed,yet man is an irrational animal. Carl Jung argued that our most powerful beliefs and attitudes come from experience and are unrelated to reason. Keeping in mind the scribblings I read here and on other forums,from all involved, I think he was probably right. However, many of the atheists here seem more rational than most of the theist apologists,some of whom seem barking mad. 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 Tangent. Min; Uriah Drip is far too humble to impersonate his God.He's just a minion who understands what God thinks about many things. 
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