Thread:~Silverstream/@comment-2041242-20140830003538/@comment-2041242-20140831000015

Ofc I have not read any research paper, I am only 20, at this age there are more important things in live. Oke, yes, you need lots of faith to believe in science.

But you dont need to have faith to be an atheist. While you need to be a christian (or religous in general). You believe in something without there ever being proof of it existence, you need a lot of faith of that. The things written down in the bible may be the proof for christians that god existst, but because there is no proof that those things really happened (they are written down thousands of years after they happened), you need faith to believe what the bible says.

I have alot of respect for the amount of faith a christian has in the bible. but you dont need to have faith to not believe in something that has never been proved.

Christians use the bible as their proof of the existence of god, muslims the islam for their god, and many other religions have their "item" which they use to proof the existence of their god.

Like I said before: the bible says a few people met god and therefore people say god exists, it talks about miracles performed that had something to do with/happened because of god, and there for god exists.

But there are also historical textures in which people say the have met other gods (paganist gods in the eyes of christians) and talk about miracles that happened because of their paganist gods. Using the same logic that would also mean those gods exist, but in the eyes of christians that is not possible. So how can they use one thing as proof of the existence of their god, but call the same kind of things (meeting being notated and miracles that happened) which is being used as proof of the existence of those paganist gods as false. That is just hypocritical.

Just like I have read stories (by christians) who say that Odin just was an old viking lord whos existence became so legendary and the stories became bigger and filled with miracles that many years later people believed in him as a god. Couldn't the same be said about Jesus, a believer in god who's fame raised so much that they believed all they read/hear about him?