Wow, Christians believe some crazy shit, don't they? I mean, seriously, you believe all this stuff about the rapture and hell and Satan and all that, based on, what? Some ancient collection of Jewish mythology and some cryptic writings about one of many people claiming to be the messiah in first century Judaea...

It seems equally logical to put one's faith in the Qur'an, which was supposedly dictated to the prophet Muhammed in the seventh century by Allah through the angel Gabriel.

Or to put one's faith in Homer's Odyssey, which describes how the many gods helped Greece in its conquest of Troy.

I mean, we have all these ancient mythological writings on file, and we can be sure that most of them are flat out wrong for the simple reason that they all contradict each other. What makes the outlandish claims of the Bible particularly believable?

I am convinced that belief in the Bible or any other ancient mythological writings cannot possibly be based on logic or reason. In the vast majority of cases religious faith boils down to a little bit of wishful thinking and a lot of tradition and authority (usually from the parents and/or the culture of the particular region where the individual happens to live).