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You have a lot more information than they do. You can compare Christianity's history of claimed miracles to Islam's or asian religions, and notice they're about as well attested. You can compare the modern physical explanation for the history of evolution, nature, and the cosmos to the history of Christianity (and Islam)'s supposedly divinely inspired claims. You can observe the structural, geographical, and political influences on the evolution of metaphysical claims and 'divinely inspired' doctrine. You can compare those to the natural history of things like physics, chemistry, biology. What would a prayer-effect-on-survival RCT find? Are the divine inspirations claimed by members of other christian sects or Islam fake, even though they're roughly as passionate as those of the members of your sect?
Sometimes things happen that people can't explain and call them miracles. Although I'll re-concede as before I have absolutely no evidence or reason to believe in physically impossible things like limbs regrowing, I'm humble enough to kind of throw up my hands and admit I don't know how it all works.
2000 years later we're still not any closer to knowing why there's something rather than nothing
Great point! I used to as an atheist, and still do, find it a compelling argument that for example it would be extremely odd if everyone in indonesia believed dinosaurs died by meteor while everyone in pakistan believe they died from climate change and everyone in thailand believed it was something else. But this is one that faithful people are probably even quicker to acknowledge than atheists: "yeah, human beings fuck things up, what else is new," essentially. Or another example, there are 100 different translations and different scriptures left in and out etc - very convincing to me as an atheist that it had to all be bullshit. Faithful people just study all the different things and say "ah there people go screwing things up again"
I'm not gonna throw the whole baby out with the bathwater, but I don't really trust a lot of that stuff right now. Again not meaning molecules or gravity or anything like that.
This is a good example of my answer to the last question: I don't care because I don't trust it. Googling 'study on does prayer work' pulls up literally a million results and we know we could find plenty both for and against. I also know I've prayed for a loved one to get better and they did for seemingly no reason. And as long as you're not overdoing it, it can't hurt.
I'm not a member of any sect, in keeping with my general 'don't trust things just because someone says so' goal, but answering your question in the spirit in which it was asked, I feel comfortable saying the more recent stuff like Islam and LDS are not as believable as the older stuff, and that some beliefs in general are more plausible than others (Scientology comes to mind)
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