Faith is not good enough!

Imagine a scenario where a person has killed someone.  He is guilty!  However, no-one saw him, no-one has any evidence to prove that he committed the crime.  It doesn't matter if he really did do it, unless there is some evidence to demonstrate that he did kill the person.  The reality that the murder was committed matters little in this situation and no justice can be done.  Unless this person confesses to the crime justice cannot be done.

The same can be said for religious claims.  It doesn't matter if people say that they know that they know.  Unless there is evidence to back the claims there is not a case.  If Jesus really did die and rise again and their is no way of proving it, it is all just academic.

I have become sick of Christians telling me I should just believe.  I can't believe that people could be so ignorant as to suggest to someone to set aside their critical faculties and just believe.  If I did this I would have to lie.  Is that acceptable?  From my experience many Christians would be willing to accept the fact that I would have to lie to myself.

It is easy for me to be critical and ask for evidence and proof.  As an agnostic I am simply placing myself on the fence, looking down on the landscape of opinions and presumptions, just asking questions.  Unless people who make their religious claims can come up with something a bit reasonable I will have to stay on the fence.  It is not good enough to say you know when there is no way of showing that you know.

Know what I mean?