Most of what you believe is based on faith.

I attempted to make this point with a delightful young lady recently.

To spare you reading through hundreds of profane, angry screeds, I’ll summarize my point.

I believe the sun will rise tomorrow but I can’t prove it to you.

Believing in sunrise requires faith.

Because if you apply the same relentless skepticism to the sunrise that you do to Jesus…

… Sonrise …see what I did?…

…you’ll deflect every reasonable attempt to convince you.

Me: “The laws of planetary motion suggest the Earth will rotate and…”

You: “If the Earth is rotating, why aren’t we all dizzy?”

Me: “That’s another topic…”

You: “How do you know the Earth rotates? You’ve never been in space!”

Me: “That’s true. But some people have been there and they said…”

You: “Ha! Everyone who claims to have been in space is an Astronaut! They’re bias!”

Me: “I’m not sure how to…”

You: “Astronauts will say anything to make gullible people believe in the space program.”

Me: “The sun came up today…”

You: “Hahaha! So you say! I didn’t see it. I slept until noon!”

Me: “Well, if you look at history…”

You: “The past cannot prove the future.”

Me: “Right. I guess you’ll just need to have faith.”

You: “I don’t need faith! I need evidence! EVIDENCE!!!”

Of course.

It’s always about the evidence.

Problem is, you don’t see evidence when it kicks in your door and sits down for dinner.

Evidence will never erase all possible doubt.

Skilled skeptics such as yourself can doubt anything you choose to disbelieve.

But wisdom isn’t the result of poor reasoning.

When you can’t see the truth, it doesn’t cease to exist.

Evidence serves only to strengthen your faith.

Faith is always the foundation for belief.

Whether you believe it or not…