do religious people really believe?

[paulpablo]

well normally id say insiginificant claims require little evidence and huge soul saving outlandish unbelievable claims require lots and lots of evidence

Evidence is evidence regardless of your judgement about the plausibility of the result. If the rules of evidence are not consistently applied then the process of evaluating that evidence becomes biased.

i dont understand why youre making this statement, of course evidence is evidence no one would argue with that, and of course if evidence isnt judged correctly then its bias, but whats your point? im saying if someone said i bought a goldfish today, i dont require a background check, photographic evidence and witness testimony in order to believe in this because the consiquences of it arent drastic, but if someone says they know which religion god wants us to follow and that there is a god and he had a son and he came to earth and was born of a virgin and so on and so on then id want evidence for that because its something i would care about if it were true. So are you trying to say i should ask for evidence for every little tiny thing in my life? or that i should ask for very little evidence for dramatic claims in my life just so that i wont be bias?

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i just find it difficult to believe these people believe in heaven or hell they dont act like they do in the slightest.

the scary thing is they do..... this is how stupid people behave......illogically......your essentially asking a retarded person to act logically .....good luck with that

i dont think ive met one christian or muslim who acts like they believe in heaven or hell, maybe i just havent met the right ones i know they do exist, people who deny medical care to their children for example for religious beliefs, but i personally havent met one religious person who acted as if they believed in a heaven and hell.
also im not asking people to behave logically, im just saying not only am i skeptical of religion im skeptical that the people who say they believe in religion actually believe in it.