FIRST OFF: I'm not trying to prove anything. If you're going to pick at the logic you'd be doing the very thing the quote talks about.
Tell me your thoughts
"But first consider this. If a person opposes even the possibility of there being a God, then any evidence can be rationalized or explained away. It is like if someone refuses to believe that people have walked on the moon, then no amount of information is going to change their thinking. Photographs of astronauts walking on the moon, interviews with the astronauts, moon rocks...all the evidence would be worthless, because the person has already concluded that people cannot go to the moon."
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2007-03-08 12:45:25 · 17 answers · asked by Doug 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The statement is true;people will only believe what their heart wants to believe;which is why God is after our hearts.Not just our minds and bodies.
2007-03-08 12:49:46 · answer #1 · answered by Maurice H 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
This quote is flawed by nature.
A person can keep a open mind of whether there is a God or not, however, clear evidences are required to prove the existence.
When you said a person is having a closed mind when he refuse to accept hard evidences of humans walking on the moon, then it is true. However, when you say a person is having a closed mind when he refused to accept God when there is no evidences to proof of his existences, then it is false.
You should provide irrefutable evidences.
2007-03-08 20:54:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It makes sense to me. It's human nature. Our brains have each created a mental map of the world based on our experiences since birth. When new data contradict our mental maps, it is easier to reject the data than to revise our mental maps, or even to risk having to revise it by doing research. So that's what most people do most of the time.
That said, i've seen this attitude much more in theists (mainly Abrahamic) than in atheists, although dogmatic atheists do exist.
2007-03-08 20:58:32 · answer #3 · answered by RickySTT, EAC 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting. Good point if you are defining the word "debate". I tend to think that everyone agrees that God does not exist. For example, every Jew believes that the Christians have it wrong. The Christians think that the Jews are wrong. Now throw Islam into the mix and even more people disagree about religion. If you think about it. More people believe that religion is wrong than there are people that think it is right.
2007-03-08 20:49:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If we are going to accept the possibility that god exists without proof then whats to stop us from believing anything exists? How about a three headed monkey tailed zombified aquatic dung eating spineless tiger fish? According to this guy, there's a possibility that this thing I just described, exists.
2007-03-08 21:11:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
At face value I would have to agree. Only one problem with that though, it leaves out the influence of the Holy Ghost/Spirit. With that, a heart of stone can be touched and turned to God for no apparent reason to an observer.
2007-03-08 20:50:16 · answer #6 · answered by violet 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are no true atheists. This is because the existence of God cannot be disproven or proven. However, if there was undeniable evidence. Such as God came down to earth and said to me, Here I am! And stopped genocide, and cured cancer and AIDS, I would believe in God.
2007-03-08 20:52:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
There is a another quote very similar to the one you stated above but alot simpler "For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who don't believe, no explanation will suffice." Isn't that the truth?
2007-03-08 21:04:30 · answer #8 · answered by Freedspirit 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As long as you are willing to accept that this quote (behaviour) describes both theists (who do beleive) AND atheists (who do not beleive), I do agree with it.
And that is precisely why christians and non-christians come to blows all the time. Because people form their beliefs and then stubbornly STICK to their beliefs with no "wriggle room" for flexibility.
2007-03-08 20:57:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
you could just look at it the other way and say if a person has decided there is a god then any facts that disagree with this can be explained away.
2007-03-08 20:51:04 · answer #10 · answered by fiddich59 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋