AMERICAN ATHEISTS: How long have you been a nonbeliever, and what brought you to that realization? DNA: Well, it’s a rather corny story. As a teenager I was a committed Christian. It was in my background. I used to work for the school chapel in fact. Then one day when I was about eighteen I was walking down the street when I heard a street evangelist and, dutifully, stopped to listen. As I listened it began to be borne in on me that he was talking complete nonsense, and that I had better have a bit of a think about it.
I’ve put that a bit glibly. When I say I realized he was talking nonsense, what I mean is this. In the years I’d spent learning History, Physics, Latin, Math, I’d learnt (the hard way) something about standards of argument, standards of proof, standards of logic, etc. In fact we had just been learning how to spot the different types of logical fallacy, and it suddenly became apparent to me that these standards simply didn’t seem to apply in religious matters. In religious education we were asked to listen respectfully to arguments which, if they had been put forward in support of a view of, say, why the Corn Laws came to be abolished when they were, would have been laughed at as silly and childish and - in terms of logic and proof -just plain wrong. Why was this?
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http://www.americanatheist.org/win98-99/T2/silverman.html
So?? Then we should not see the movie then???
There's a bit in the books about a philosopher who through the use of logic disproves the existance of G-d. In his hubris, he goes on to prove black is white, and is subsequently killed at the next zebra crossing. It's a farce; not meant to be taken seriously.