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Originally Posted by FlamingZword
Then have you considered that perhaps after you die you will have to answer for your lack of faith?
have you ever seen a radio wave, gravity, or an atom, then how do you know they exist??
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There is PHYSICAL evidence for radio waves, gravity, and atoms, and for even stranger things than those. Mountains of physical evidence. The evidence is repeatable and demonstrable. Those discoverers who originally had a hypothesis about the above phenomena understood how KNOWLEDGE works, and they therefore offered a way to test their claims, as well as possessing readiness to overturn their claims if the evidence pointed a different way. This is why your religious beliefs will always remain just claims--nothing demonstrable is offered for evidence except MORE untestable claims--and often a convoluted, humorous series of claims. Nor do religious claims bring with them the willingness to overturn themselves given different or better evidence.
One example of one claim triggering the necessity for more claims--the Noahic Flood would have required thousands of other related miracles at the same time. The believer keeps trying (is required to) make it all "work" against what we already know about the world. You can keep trying to claim that your faith is the same as knowledge. But it is not, and probably never will be.
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Originally Posted by FlamingZword
have you visited every corner of the universe and can confidently say there is no God, there is no heaven, there is no hell
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Doesn't work. Have you visited every corner of the universe to confidently say Leprachauns do not exist? That Thor does not exist? That the Matrix does not exist? That Heidi does not exist? (Who's Heidi? I don't know, but doesn't matter--she exists in an invisible world and she loves you, but will punish the rest of the world.) Sorry, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. That is, unless you possess a religious mind, where what you want to be true is confused with the knowledge that evidence provides-- at least the level of evidence that you use when results really matter--such as in every day life. Instead, you have lots of company, and most of your company claims all kinds invisible spirit world beings out there somewhere.