"Batman and Superman are fantasy, but I have a close and personal relationship with Spiderman."

[DetlefK]

5. Actually "I believe" is all the rage.

"Well, I don't care about all that talk about proving or disproving God. This is belief and belief is immune to logic."


Even if you managed to disprove the existence of God (be it philosophical or experimental), believers would just say "I don't care, I believe in him anyway."
Just the other day I posted a philosophical proof here on DU that an entity cannot be all-powerfull and all-knowing at the same time. (Criticism welcome and appreciated.) It leads to a crippling paradoxon. The only way for the god-entity to avoid it would be to abstain from interacting with his creation at all. The few believers who responded were unfazed even though it attacked the basics of christian doctrine.


They don't believe because they are convinced of something, they believe because they WANT to believe, they believe because it makes them happy.