Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-226878-20150710200046/@comment-226878-20150730142823

Personally, I don't think it matters one way or another how many atheists exist and whom among them are true atheists. I also don't think anyone would care if RT put Biblical characters in RWBY because, for one, they would have to change their names to match CNR anyway. Nobody gives a rat's ass if Jesus is in a story under a different name. Does anyone recall Jordan Collier?

@Spirit: I agree with Live that you can't have it both ways. If you don't "disbelieve," then on some level, you believe. Belief is not a rock-solid position, it's an understanding of possibility even in regards to something which cannot scientifically be proven. I am a Christian myself. I and thousands like me struggle everyday to maintain our belief that 1) there is a god, 2) there is only one god, 3) there are miracles, 4) god loves us despite being wrathful, and at least 10 other things. This in the face of adversities and scientific discoveries which collaborate daily in an almost conscious attempt to disrupt these beliefs.

If you've ever watched The Santa Clause, then you know that "seeing isn't believing, believing is seeing." In this way, you are aware of something that at least some part of you deems true because you do not dismiss it out of hand. Even people who struggle to disprove things have to believe in it on some level otherwise why the hell would they waste their lives trying to disprove said things? Belief and doubt form a symbiotic relationship. Belief cannot exist without doubt and vice versa. If we had no doubts, we wouldn't have belief, we would have factual knowledge which is a completely different thing. We do have factual knowledge about events that have occurred within the Bible. We don't have factual proof of the miracles that have occurred because human beings are known to lie (whether in favor of or in decrying said miracles).