re: #102 ObserverArt

To me atheists have faith there is no god the same way a religious person has faith there is.

But this kind of means you don’t understand faith. You know the trust routine where you falls backwards and your friends/colleagues are supposed to catch you? Atheism is the equivalent to knowing that if no one catches you, you will hit the ground. Faith is believing that your colleagues will catch you.

If God reached out and caught me, I would believe in him, but it wouldn’t be faith. I would have evidence he exists.

And yes, I know about the analogy of the man on the roof, and it’s a great analogy for people who do believe in God. It just doesn’t fill in the gap for explaining God’s existence.