Quote Originally Posted by sport_122 View Post
umm why do you believe that the sun is a ball of fire? Why do you believe in gravity? why do you believe that 1 plus 1 is 2? All of this is because someone told you. But you don't question these things, do you. Proof is just as much perception as anything else. When you learned to read you didn't ask someone to prove the alphabet works the way it does...did you?

all proof is is interpretation of something. 100 people could look at the same thing and get something different from it 100 times.

fear is not the reason to believe in God, damnation is not the reason either. Anyone who tells you that is wrong. Its not about death its about life, its not about hate its about love. you are judging the entire concept off of the misquotations and poor actions of a few who don't even represent the majority.
i know the sun isnt a ball of fire, but a giant nuclear reaction. I know the laws of gravity because I can jump up and come back down here on earth. I know 1+1=2 not because someone told me, but because it can be proven. I can have one apple and someone give me another apple and I'll have two apples. Proof is not someone's perception or interpretation. If I asked 100 people what I had, 100 people would say I had two apples.

We also know the alphabet works (as we're speaking the English language) and this has nothing to do with trying to prove the existence of god. This is a straw man fallacy. Which is common when trying to prove the existence of god.