How do you know I have a priori decided it true rather than by looking at the evidence?
Because
1. there is no evidence
2. You don't think critically of your own arguments, you just post them because they lead to your conclusion. If I was wrong, you would not be calling the gospels original documentation and eye witness accounts because they clearly aren't.
I'm not saying anything about whether or not they are false by the way.
Not open to other points of view. Can an atheist fall under this definition?
They sure can. Most of us don't, precisely because we value logic, reason, critical thinking and empirical evidence.
Most of us look at ACTUAL evidence and from THERE form our opinions, that's the opposite of being close minded, because you're letting the evidence lead you
For example, as a kid, I honestly believed Frankenstein's monster was real.
I looked at the evidence for a murderous philosophizing reanimated corpse made out of other people's body parts, and I'm sad to conclude the likeliness of Frankenstein's monster actually existing is pathetically small.
This is deciding based on evidence.
What you are doing is believing God is real, and continue to ignore, disregard, spin, whatever arguments and criticisms and scientific knowledge and impossibilities you come across just so everything will always fit your a priori belief.
The evidence for the fact that most theists do this is to be found all over this forum.[/code]
