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No, the Christian knows with complete certainty that he and his religion must be right. That's not humility. When I became an atheist, I accepted the fact that I don't know.

I do want to know you all's thoughts on the matter, but to me, yes it is a discussion. A discussion that I am interested in and consider important, though.

I don't think I buy the distinction, personally, I'm just quoting from what I hear. Right. The Bible (Hebrews 11:3) says, "By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command" - that is, by faith (being "certain of what you do not see", Hebrews 11:1), and not by evidence. That...

The traditional ascriptions for the Gospels are based on very shaky ground indeed: the testimony of one man, Papias. Papias wrote ~60 years after Mark wrote, too long to be a good source. But Papias cannot be trusted even without considering this date. Eusebius thought that Papias was "a man of...

Oh yes, on the last point, James says, "Oh, so you believe in God? Well, you're doing very well - after all, even the demons believe, and they tremble!" The demons are said to believe, but they do not know God. Yes, that is the point at which we diverge. :)

Atheism is the lack of belief in God. But I'd call myself an agnostic atheist: I am an atheist because I hold no belief in the existence of any deity and specifically disbelieve in the existence of God. But I am also an agnostic because I do not think the (non-)existence of a deity is currently...

I believe in the Christian God like I do other gods. Stephen Roberts said, "When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." I don't "know" that, say, Allah or Zeus does not exist, but I seriously doubt it. So I don't know for sure that...

Hello everyone! To introduce myself: I'm an atheist teenager from Kentucky. I'd been religious (Baptist) most of my life, until nearly my sixteenth birthday, at which point my deconversion, lasting roughly a year, began. Despite my religious preferences, I still regularly read and study the...