Belief is just that and we are entitled to believe what we want.
I believe history as much as I believe the bible since they were both written before my time and I have no absolute proof of either. Has nobody heard of the saying "History is written by the victor" ?

Unless it's first hand how can anything be believed (including history) without concrete evidence?
psychocat Reviewed by psychocat on . Argument made by religious people that just isn't valid A lot of people justify their belief in a certain religion by claiming that there is basically no difference between believing in religious texts and believing in commonly accepted historical texts. They'll say something like, "What's the difference between believing in the Bible and believing all the written accounts of the Civil War, for example? You choose to believe those accounts, even though you weren't actually there, just like I choose to believe in the Bible even though I wasn't Rating: 5