Faith and science do not coexist very well because science by definition is proof based where faith by definition prohibits proof. In the world of science what is true and what is false are separated by testing and scrutiny. What stands up to scrutiny becomes true. What fails to stand up becomes false. People make mistakes and mistakes get corrected and truth is purified through what is basically an evolutionary process, the survival of that which passes constant inspection.
The problem with faith is that there is no way of testing to determine if what you have faith in is actually true.
The problem with faith is that it's blasphemy to question what you are supposed to accept without proof. You are expected to accept a set of assertions based on bare claims of truth without any means of verifying if the claims are in fact true. And if any of the claims actually are false, then there's no way to correct that. The only thing you can do is pray that what you are believing in is actually true. But even that doesn't work because you have tens of thousands of religions that believe opposite things, and that's the one thing that most every one of them have in common. God confirms them all as true. About the only religion that God hasn't confirmed as true is this church, the Church of Reality.
The Church of Reality is one of the only religions that God hasn't endorsed.
If people of faith had a consistent message from religion to religion, or believer to believer within the same religion, and God was telling everyone the same thing, then that might indicate there was a real source behind this faith. But what we in the Church of Reality see happening is that people make up stories and sucker gullible people into believing it. If you are a person of faith you can see this happening too. Every other religion except yours does it. Any believer can quickly see how other religions are deceiving their faithful. So by what test does one judge one's own religion to assert that your religion is more real than the other person's religion. The truth is - there is none.
Of course there are those who think that God talks to them directly and that's how they know their faith is real. They have had a supernatural experience where God confirmed to them personally what they believe in is true. They "know it in their heart" and have no doubts about it now. But - that too has a problem. People of other religions who believe the opposite of what you believe have had the same personal experience with God. From the outside it appears that God will confirm anything you believe in and everyone who claims divine personal communication with God seems equally credible.
God tells Christians to kill Muslims. God tells Muslims to kill Christians. Why can't God make up his mind?
So - is God telling people different things or are some of these people experiencing something that they think is God talking that really isn't? What if they are just imagining that they are talking to God, or rather God is talking to them? Or - for those who believe in God and Satan, how do you know that Satan isn't pretending to be God and fooling you? What objective test separates those who really hear God from those who think they hear God, but don't really?
Lets say, for example, you are a believer and you have personally heard the word of God and you have a personal relationship with Jesus. However, as you are aware, there are a lot of weird religions out there who's members claim the exact same kind of relationship with God and Jesus that you have, but obviously that's a problem because they believe in things you know aren't true. So somehow their experience with hearing the voice of God must be false. But they would claim that their relationship is real and yours is false. So - how do you objectively determine using faith and not science, that you are right and they are wrong? I challenge any believer to come up with a method, apply the method, and tell me which one is the true religion.
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