Can you make a God claim?

[John V]

Yes, that is true but how do you turn your brain off?

I don't. There's much more to the human experience than science. Why do you pretend otherwise?

Do you just compartmentalize the portion of yourself that has faith and only ask for proof in other parts of your life?

There are plenty of parts of my life in which I operate without proof. I've noted that I don't have proof that my wife loves me. I work largely in law. There's plenty of times that I can't get a position to the point of proven. So what? Maybe ambiguity bothers you more than it bothers me, because I don't see the problem.

Can a Christian be honest when they condemn other people's religions for being illogical or without substance when they themselves can't come up with any better reasons for their faith?

I can come up with better reasons for my faith than for others I've studied. This is another instance of black-and-white thinking on your part. You seem to think that, because no religion can be proven, they're all equally unsupported. That's not how it works. Same as in law. Just because I can't prove my case doesn't mean that I can't evaluate different positions and conclude that one is better than others, even if it is not proven itself.

Imagine that I try to use the same logic in this thread to convince you that you should follow my goddess, an invisible, blue rabbit.

As a traditionalist I prefer pink unicorns, but whatever.

Now imagine further that I am relatively sane in all other aspects of my life but this one belief. Like me, you would probably find yourself curious how I could just accept something as true when I don't use the same lack of proof in other parts of my life.

First, I think that, like everyone else, you do accept things without proof in other parts of your life. you just don't admit it.

Second, I really don't care if you believe in the rabbit. Whatever. What's it got to do with me?

That's one way to differentiate beliefs - claimed importance to me. If you're not even claiming that your bunny has an important message for mankind, well, whatever.