Evidence God Exists

[Loki_999]

@Loki_999 - What aspects of religion require dismissal of reality? I consider myself a very strong believer, yet I'd lie to think I have a healthy perspective on the whole enchilada. Questioning my beliefs are tantamount to growing individually.What makes you think Christians can't experience and then draw conclusions just like you?

Its nice to hear that. Not many Christians are willing to question their beliefs except when its along the lines of questioning exactly how scripture should be interpreted. I find myself often questioning my beliefs and judgments, although like any human being I am also capable to sticking to my guns quite illogically when not thinking rationally.

But as to what aspects of religion require ignore/dismissal of reality? Well, this again brings us back to the whole reason for this thread. Complete lack of evidence for a start. There is no evidence for god, so reality does not support its assertion. Everything can be explained without gods or at least there is a possible non-god reason that we still need to figure out (eg: what exactly caused the creation of the universe?). I already pointed to the creationist as an extreme example of where religion is willing to ignore reality. While the more moderate religious suffer its not to the same extent but its there if you dig deep enough into most beliefs.

Please note, i'm not saying this applies to you particularly, i don't know enough about your individual beliefs to discuss this. For example, I think you believe in Jesus... and there is a reasonable probability that there was a (mortal) guy called Jesus (Yeshua) who lived around that time preaching a lot of things that he was quoted as saying (which of course does not make what he said true). If you believe the stuff about his birth, the census, death of the firstborns, etc, then I believe this has been proven false through historical records... would have to dig for the links to support that assertion, but I do recall reading about it somewhere... but plenty of religious still accept a lot of these so-called biblical facts as the truth even if they have been pointed out as being false.