There are a range of beliefs about reality, and religious belief is not the same as epistemologically justifiable true beliefs.
Empirically verifiable beliefs are of a different quality than beliefs formed by conjecture, and from experience of real world events. Believing the sun will appear to rise in the east and set in the west does not require the same type of "faith" religious people argue it does.
We know why it appears to do this, and we know it would take some sort of catastrophic improbable galactic event we would likely survive to change it.
Other beliefs are not as justified, and religious beliefs rely entirely on faith in the absence of evidence.
Religious beliefs in the existence of God are in no way comparable to beliefs formed from a foundation of empirical evidence.
Empirically verifiable beliefs are of a different quality than beliefs formed by conjecture, and from experience of real world events. Believing the sun will appear to rise in the east and set in the west does not require the same type of "faith" religious people argue it does.
We know why it appears to do this, and we know it would take some sort of catastrophic improbable galactic event we would likely survive to change it.
Other beliefs are not as justified, and religious beliefs rely entirely on faith in the absence of evidence.
Religious beliefs in the existence of God are in no way comparable to beliefs formed from a foundation of empirical evidence.
