Posted: Feb 03, 2011 4:46 pm
Nice to see you back, SS. 
I think I agree with that. All one can do is provide information which may or may not join other information to cause an individual to find their beliefs untenable. It is a process they go through and I don't think anyone else can take the credit for it. The individual has to be in the right frame of mind to begin with in order to be able to critically assess what they are being told - we can all think of examples of people who have heard argument after argument against the existence of a god and who have not shifted one iota in their beliefs.
I think I agree with that. All one can do is provide information which may or may not join other information to cause an individual to find their beliefs untenable. It is a process they go through and I don't think anyone else can take the credit for it. The individual has to be in the right frame of mind to begin with in order to be able to critically assess what they are being told - we can all think of examples of people who have heard argument after argument against the existence of a god and who have not shifted one iota in their beliefs.