an actual debate in the debate forum

[The Former DMiller]

I'm going to kind of speak in generalities here since I don't have time to write a lengthy treatise and quote people, but everything thing we know about history in general, not just religious history, may not be what actually happened. More recent history is easier to verify since you can talk to people who were around when things happened, but as witnesses to major historical events die off all we have to go on are written records, which can be twisted by author bias as well as author ignorance. The further you go back in history the less written records you will find so we rely on a scant few sources to tell us what happened in ancient history. Since pretty much everything that has been written since the beginning of written language can be influenced by the author we really cannot verify the details of what happened a long time ago. This is one of the reasons I have gone from a kid who blindly went through a Catholic grammar school to someone who has at times questioned whether there is a God at all since we really have no evidence of it. Once I started asking questions about religion I realized that they call it faith since you are believing in something that cannot be proven. I don't have a problem with people who have a lot of faith, and it's great to be able to believe in something so strongly, but it is hard for me believe in something for which there is no proof.