Philosophy with Cap'n Coconuts

[Cap'n Coconuts]

So you either need to have a self-perpetuating faith in a thing that lacks any physical form or empirical evidence, or you need to have an intellectually-overriding emotional connection to something that lacks any physical form or empirical evidence.

If it counts, Christ did have a physical form and there are some facts about his life that are commonly accepted. The issue is whether or not He was actually God in the flesh, did miracles, and died for our sins. Cold-Case Christianity, a book by J. Warner Wallace, tries to take evidence from the past to prove Christianity. I might write my thoughts about that some time in the future, because people are more likely to listen to me if I express ideas in my own words than if I just tell them to buy books.

Faith and reason is a careful balance, and it's one that people just love messing around with, usually for reasons along the lines of "come on, I can't believe people still think that in <year>" or "but no, really, my point of view is obvious and you're just a living caricature of ignorance and evil, right?"

well, people will be jerks for just about any reason that makes them feel superior