What Religion Would You Recommend?: Thanks for commenting #2

Anonymous writes (edited, you can read the rest in comments section): "Isn't it amazing that many of the religious claims still stand even thousands of years later and people believe they receive truth in them when many theories in other areas have actually been proven completely false."

LHG says:

Of course, an issue here is how you would actually disprove a religious claim. Take religious experience as an example. If somebody tells you God talks to them - how would you counter that claim? To do so, you'd have to go to the source of an experience which is tough to do. A different way to go about it is to stress not the source, but rather the effects. In the history of Christianity a conversion is often deemed real if it's expressed in a life of piety - the effects determine whether the conversion experience was real.

On the other hand, anonymous, lots of religious claims have been disproved and people don't really care. The Gospels, for example, are not historical documents. They don't give us factual accounts of Jesus' life. Yet lots of Christians still think they do. And yes, that's often were faith comes in. But it comes at the price of sacrificing our capacity for criticism. Interestingly, Islam has a different understanding of faith than Protestant Christianity. Protestant Christianity often sees faith as a kind of believing without reason, for Islam it's reason that leads to faith.

Thanks for your comment, and good night.