If you're not currently religious then I'd like to ask you guys, since you don't believe in god what would it take to change your mind?
What makes you presume that anything could change my mind? I'm a man of reason. Science is a belief system based on reason, so on that basis I categorize myself as a scientist. Religion is a belief system based on faith. I am not a man of faith. To ask me what it would take to make me religious is to ask what it would take to convert me from reason to faith. I suppose the answer would be senility or some other mental illness.
Let's say you are in a crowd that claims god has returned, that Jesus is back from the dead and living here & now. You go see this man and he performs miracles, you can hardly believe.. later he does some really weird stuff like floating, glowing, etc... this is real and nothing is imagined.
It looks like this scenario has already been beaten to death. Our failure to understand something does not automatically "prove" that it is supernatural. All it "proves" is that we're not as smart as we think we are.
You need to read up on the "Cargo Cult," a phenomenon of the Stone Age tribes of New Guinea who were exposed to 20th century technology during World War II. They found all these crashed airplanes full of what appeared to be magical commodities. Their representatives were taken on an exhaustive tour of the mines, smelters, factories, and other plants where these artifacts were created, and they still went home believing that it was all done by "gods."
You see that's what it means to know god is fake, do you have that kind of understanding?
We don't "know" that god is fake. That is going beyond science into pure arrogance. We don't "know" something is wrong until it is disproven, and religious belief systems are crafted so as not to be disprovable. That makes them kind of lame, but lame isn't the same as fake.
Christians are evil so that's why
You got yourself in hot water with this one and you deserved it. You need to improve the way you express yourself.
I have said something similar to this in many threads without getting flamed for it. The point I make is that monotheism is an impotent model of the human spirit because by definition it is one-dimensional: everything falls somewhere on a linear scale between good and evil. Whereas the human spirit has something like 23 dimensions, according to everyone from the ancient polytheists to Shakespeare to Jung to a TV soap operas. Compressing those 23 dimensions into one in essence suppresses a good part of every Christian's spirit. This forces many instincts and desires down into what Jung calls "the Shadow" where they rot and fester. When this happens to one person you get a little antisocial behavior and you get over it. When this happens to an entire community of hundreds of millions of people you get war, genocide, and the obliteration of entire civilizations. (Egypt, Aztec and Inca were all destroyed by the armies of monotheistic civilizations.)
Now this is what I call evil and nobody tries to deny it. But I'm not calling individual Christians evil. It's the way in which their religion has evolved that is evil. Perhaps they will yet find a way to fix it. If not, they seem ready to fight it out with the Muslims, who have the same problem with their own monotheistic religion. War being what it is, if this happens it's very likely that the winner will be the more evil of the two.
This is an idea worth discussing. What you're doing is nothing more than flaming, and you're getting flamed back for it.
Also, you are clear example of what it means to have pure blind atheistic faith...."I won't believe in God or the Bible or anything no matter what"
This is not atheistic faith. This is science.
To believe in something that has been proven is mathematics.
To believe in something for which there is a huge weight of evidence, but which could be disproven, is science.
To believe in something just because you think it's nice... that is faith. I have no objection to people building their lives on faith, but I do have an objection to people attempting to convince me that I should share their faith when faith is a purely personal matter.
I won't believe in a god until someone presents a huge weight of evidence for the existence of a god. So far there is virtually none. Gods show themselves to one person or a small group of people at a time, and even these highly suspicious phenomena conveniently stopped happening about the same time man invented recording technology. Most of the things that are attributed to divine intervention nowadays are pathetically simple stage magic. Those that have not yet been explained do not compel me to say "Oh wow, I guess there really is a god." That's the fallacy of the Cargo Cult. As I said, you guys should all read up on it.
