Is Faith Reasonable?

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MTZehvor said:

Nem said:

It's still absolutely amazing to me, how there are people who still believe religion has any sort of evidence or even reasonable doubt. I understand hope, that i do. But religion was merely a tool created to control the masses in a time where there was no law and no policement. We have those things now. Religion only remains due to its fanaticism and is used as the excuse for violent behaviour, and that makes it the sorce for potencially the worst people alive, because they are willing to violate the preciousness of human life in the name of ancient charlaton schemes. You are capable of kindness yourself, you don't need a book to tell you that.

I'd be careful with the word evidence, because evidence can be just about anything. I could cite, for instance, the willingness of so many members of the early church to die for something they would have known for certain was a lie, or the consistency of similar stories found in religious texts all across the globe dating back to times where people could not have possibly interacted, or really something as simple as an example of people claiming that religion changed their life. Evidence can be anything that suggests that something exists, and evidence that may be entirely uncompelling to one person might be very much so to another.

 

If you get people to believe in your cause and become completely behind it they have great potential to die for it. Remember that people way back when were not educated in Europe when they fought in the name of god, or were even taught about god and kept in line. They didnt need scientific proof because back then that type of proof did not matter. People died for honor at the whim of their governments or even their monarchy. Its actually fairly recent that scientific facts and evidence came into the picture. Its also fairly recent that Christians have been so educated in the amount of years of Christianity's existence. With the evolution of law and science over the past two hundred years, many things have changed. The secular world has had an effect of on the modern Christian and they evolve their practice to match it.