(March 1, 2009 at 10:30 am)fr0d0 Wrote: If you have evidence of something, you wouldn't need to also have faith in it. Faith can only exist in something that isn't proven.
Likewise doubt and faith are co-dependant. If you had no doubt; if you were sure of something, then again, faith becomes obsolete.
Doubt needs questioning, if you don't question you don't doubt. You're sure.
To require evidence of God is therefore ridiculous. Belief in God requires faith, doubt and questioning.
Oh come on! With a topic title like yours I thought there might be a decent argument, instead you offer the lamest reasons people give for god. Please, do you think we have not heard this theistic drivel.
Faith is the cope out people have for reason. Faith is when you don't consider your beliefs logically and rationally. If God requires you to be illogical and unreasonable in your worldview then that's not god worth worshiping.
Also, you analogy of doubt and faith fail. People assert that they believe in god because the "know". A lot of theists will assert that they do not doubt there is a god.
To say god does not require evidence is to say that your god is exempt from the laws of reason. You're making a special exemption where none is deserved. It's a weak attempt at stopping people from looking at the god question.
You're right that god deserves questioning, but not in the way that you think. At the end of those questions there needs to be evidence, and there simply is none.
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." Benjamin Franklin
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