Well FHN, I guess you just don't get my point. I could claim a Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe, and that you must serve him in order to gain salvation. You could say the burden of proof is on ME to prove the existence of the FSM. And you'd be right, since there is no historical evidence of an FSM, despite his legions of atheist believers!! It would be ridiculous for me to say you have to DISPROVE the existence of FSM.
I'm not making any assertion about Jesus. I contributed to a thread (started by Layla) that proposed the thought that "Jesus never existed". All I said was there isn't unimpeachable historical evidence to support him as there are for first-century historical figures such as the Caesars and even Pontius Pilate.
As for things I do believe in, they are related to humanity -- such as charity, kindness, etc. These are things that we all can share in out of our love of humanity, and if we're religious we can also say we do so out of affection for a certain deity. I don't really care whether Jesus existed, but I have reached the conclusion that belief in him is an item of faith. Do I need to repeat that again??
BTS -- As to whether "we know absolutely nothing about nothing", that's pure nonsense. There are scientifically provable facts such as the sun rises in the east and the square root of nine is three. Or did I take you out of context? However I do respect what you said "Some of us experience a thing and it is real". I just hope that on this board we can respect a broad range of opinions, from belief to non-belief.
