Specifically, the reason you do not rely on argument and search for fact and evidence. The argument changes based on the quality of the evidence. That is how science and humankind have progressed. That is why earth is no longer the center of the universe. It is also how your ancient Jews made the transition from polytheism, to henotheism and into a bastardized form of monotheism. When the old stuff does not work anymore, we create new stuff. 30,000 new Christian faiths attest to this.
So stop making unsubstantiated assertions. It’s just that easy. Ask for facts. A fact is a fact is a fact. Einstein did not diminish Newton’s Laws of gravity, but rather, looked at gravity differently. We now have two theories and both are completely workable. Both are probably wrong, but they work. We can use them to circumnavigate the universe. And when we come up with a better understanding of gravity, we will add that to the mix. The fact is, there is something out there we call gravity, and we are trying to understand it. It behaves in predictable ways in certain predictable circumstances and those are the facts. Can you show the same level of understanding in regard to any God idea? I’ll save you the time. No you can’t. God ideas are not supported by FACTS.
What you “SEE” in front of you is well reasoned. Your interpretation of what you see is where you are going amiss. Just because you interpret what you see, this way or that way, does not make it so. This is why (Specifically why) science relies on independent verification. Two people, doing the same experiment, under the same conditions must come to the exact same conclusions or something is wrong. More research is needed. When we have doen enough experiments and the results are consistent enough, we can build a successful model to help us understand the world around us. That’s how it works. Science does not give you truths (Religion does that.) Science builds models to help us understand what is going on.
The stupidest idea you could ever have is to embrace 'FAITH." There is nothing in 'FAITH" that leads to 'TRUTH." There is not a thought on the planet, a religion, a political idology, a philosophy, that can not be held to be true based on ‘FAITH.’ The zealots of the world are many and they believe in everything from crystial magic, to Big Foots. They believe in government conspiracies, alien abductions, spirits, souls, chakras, evil spirits, good and bad luck, and all manner of nonsense. They believe it all based on stepping away from reason and adopting ‘FAITH.’ Faith is the panacea of the weak minded. It is the comfort zone for those unwilling to admit that they really don’t know.
No one has to prove he isn’t real. This is a shifting of the burden of proof. The fact remains, you have no evidence at all that the “Jesus Christ” (The character as described in the bible) is real. A man walking on water? Orion did that 1500 years before Jesus and it was well known in the mythology of the time. Raising the dead? Who didn’t raise the dead during the first century? Curing the blind and the lame. Some of the oldest stage tricks in the world. Did Jesus do anything at all that was not done by another god before him? Even dying and rising had been done before Jesus time. There is nothing unique to the Jesus story. What’s worse is that this magic man managed to wander around doing all manner of miracles, and never have a single word written about him. Nothing. No source contemporary to his life ever said a word about him. This is despite the fact that he stopped the sun in the sky and cause zombies to walk the streets. All you have are stories that were written decades after his death by people who never met him and never saw him. You have myths, and little else. Where is this Jesus you speak of?
NO! You are a person who is latched onto “FAITH” and “BELIEF” because you are scared shitless of the dark. The idea of not knowing scares the shit out of you. So, you take comfort in your fantasy of some all knowing magical flying sky daddy, who also happens to be your best friend and listens to you when you talk to him. And you turn all your fears over to him and pretend that you don’t have to deal with them. Guess what. On the day you wake from your stuperous dream, the real world is still out her waiting for you. But its worse. You are going to find that you have been hiding under a rock. You have failed to grow. You have failed to develop mentally and emotionally specifically beccause of your reliance on ‘FAITH’ and unwillingness to explore the world around you. You are thwarting your own growth and development.
Hell, a Christian invention to scare their brand of believers into following Christian dogma. You do realize there is no Hell in the Jewish tradition. No suffering pits of fire. Satan in the old testament is an angel who does Gods bidding. Like I said, poor scared Christian. Afraid to look at the world around you. Hiding behind 'FAITH." Just like every other religious belief on the planet.
Think of how lucky you are to have been born in the right country and in the right place to just happen to worship the right God., I mean, you don’t have to worry about all the other religions that have Hells. What happens if Islam is right? They have as much faith in Muhammad as you do in Jesus. You do understand that you are going to burn and be tortured in Islamic hell. The * Baháʼí Faith also has a hell, but your Jesus thing will protect you right? Your faith is stronger than their faith? Some versions of the Hindu and Buddhist faiths have Hells. Why are you not worried about these. Certainly you qualify being the heathen nonbeliever that you are. Sorry, was that a scary bettime story? Pull the covers back up over your head, recite the Lord’s Prayer, and go back to sleep. Go back to peaceful sleep. All is well, Jesus is with you. Just have ‘Faith.’ Be exactly like the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Zorastrian, the Mormon, the Scientologists, The Nuwaubains, Railists, Jediists, or any other ‘FAITH BASED BELIEF SYSTEM’ on the planet. You are ‘RIGHT,’ You have the ‘TRUTH.’ The only ‘TRUTH.’ And everyone else is wrong, sinful, filthy, and bound for the pits of hell. “I PITTY THE PETTINESS OF YOUR THOUGHT PROCESS.”
When you demonstrat 1. That there is a god. 2. That the god is worth trusting. Then we can talk. That piece of shit that runs about killing babies, wiping out entire cultures, forcing women to eat their youn, and generally butchering everyone he comes in contact with, IS NOT A GOD WORTH TRUSTING. He even lies to you about killing his own son who is not his son but himself who does not actually die but goes on to live eternally just as he always knew he would. WTF kind of a god is that? He creates mankind and being all knowing, he knows man is going to sin. So he kills off everyone because they sin and begns again. Your God of the Bible is an idiot. The bible itself is a textbook fo God’s failures. He fails over and over and over again. If this is your idea of a trusting god. No thank you.
No. My own reason has little to do with it. There are thousands and thousands of people who came before me who addressed theses same problems. I read, I study, and unlike you, I question and enquire. I listen and I explore. And once again, unlike you, when I am wrong, I suck it up and make changes in my life, my beliefs, and in my opinions. That is called growing and maturing. Something you will never do as you hide behind 'FAITH."
Right about what? The fact that someone uttered something right does not make him a god. Do you think Jesus actually said something that was not said centuries before him. “Love thy Neighbor.” Leviticus chapters 17-26 is known as the Holiness Code. ANCIENT HEBREWS: v. 18, with “And you shall love your fellow man as yourself.” Possibly the earliest affirmation of the maxim of reciprocity, reflecting the ancient Egyptian goddess Ma’at appears in the story of “The Eloquent Peasant” which dates to the Middle Kingdom of Egypt (c. 2040–1650 BCE): "Now this is the command: Do to the doer to make him do. This proverb embodies the *do ut des principle. A Late Period papyrus contains an early negative affirmation of the Golden Rule: “That which you hate to be done to you, do not do to another.” NOTHING JESUS TAUGHT CAN NOT BE FOUND IN AN EARLIER KNOWN MANUSCRIPT.
Now pull that blanket up tight to your chin and go back to sleep. Back to sweet restfull sleep.