Belief/Faith as a concept, poses a fatal flaw to veracity of Christianity

Explaining a miracle to a non-believer is like explaining metaphors to an infant. When a car spins around in circles on black ice in the midst of heavy traffic, and the end result is a scratch to the bumper, I think God"s favor and grace, trumps Luck in this situation. Respectfully, you missed the point I was trying to convey. Slaves endured harsh treatment in America. , Some slaves who were robbed from Africa refused to come to America and jumped overboard off of the slave ship and killed themselves. Then you had the Slaves who made a decision to "believe" in God, even though they could not anticipate the mistreatment they would receive in America, this belief which led to the creation and 'belief' in Black churches, the oldest institution and pillar of the black community, which led to belief in Black universities, which led to the belief in the civil right movement, which led to the March on Washington. Can you see where belief can take a person? I used African Americans as an example, but I'm sure other races and religions have similar stories in regards to belief .You're doing yourself a disservice, comparing 400 years and counting of oppression to drug abuse. I do agree that some Christians accept every word the Preacher speaks on the pulpit, some refuse to do their own research, but don't forget to acknowledge the fact that there are people who chose to have faith in the unseen and their lives have dramatically changed. You didn't make the argument for other religions you devoted all of your time and energy towards to debunking Christianity. I believe humans are given a choice to believe in something that will aid them in their journey of becoming a better person, internally and externally. Since we're discussing Christianity, I will mention the fact that there is a popular belief that there is healing power in prayer. A psychiatrist by the name of Elisabeth Targ has been involved in prayer studies for numerous years ".In her first project, she enrolled twenty patients with AIDS and randomly assigned them to two groups: one that received prayers from experienced healers and one that did not. The patients and healers never met, and neither the patients nor their doctors knew if or when they were being prayed for. To Targ"s surprise, 40% of the control group died and no one in the prayer group died during the six-month trial period. She repeated the study with 40 patients but by then, protease inhibitors were being used that kept people on AIDS alive. No one in either group died, but those in the control group suffered six times more complications and illnesses than those in the prayer group." You might ask why I'm mentioning prayer, I brought it up because we're discussing if people make a decision to believe in God. Prayer (a solemn request for help or expression of thanks addressed to God or an object of worship.) At my church we have intercessory prayer during service and we prayer for members and non-members who are facing challenges in life, we also prayer for strength for difficult days ahead. our Prayers are filled with thanksgiving and adoration for god's mercy and favor Prayers are not always answered when we want them to be answered, and some have died waiting for their prayers to be answered, but we are sure of what we all experience with God, Every person who believes in God has a different tailor-made relationship with God. We believe what we experience; we hear what we allow to be spoken to us. To say belief is a concept is to say that God subsumes particulars. You asked why bad things happened to innocent people. Well, have you considered the fact that Good things happen to bad people too. Society has adopted the belief, that the sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence will decide their fate in future existences. If there is a "God" why would he intervene every time something tragic occurred if he knew how powerful an omnipotent, He would have to be aware of the past and the future, why would he abruptly alter his predestined plan? Why would he have to justify his actions or his plans to people he"s not forcing to follow him? If God answered every prayer, why would we need to call on him to seek guidance and strength? Now to entertain you"re hypothetical, in the spirit of debating, If God didn't exist, and I would find no need to love or care for anyone. I would not have a conscious; I would mistreat every individual I came in contact with on daily basis. I would not respect my elders or feel the need to hope for the future. I would have no morals or principles. No respect for the law. I would lie, steal and kill and not worry about the consequences because there is no heaven or hell to through me in, I would be self-centered and I would worship me, and all that would matter to me would be my thoughts my gifts my talents and everyone else"s struggle or bad circumstances would be an afterthought to me. From a Christian perspective, Prophecy has to be fulfilled. We"re the actors and actresses in life and God wrote the script before we were born. God will not change for man, men and women change for God. The problem I have with your argument is that you're treating Christianity or should I say approaching Christianity like it's a flawed experiment. You "believe" in evidence that support your beliefs Sounds like you"re debating in circles. Why do you believe the evidence? You believe God doesn"t exist because that"s what the evidence tells you, and you believe the evidence because you decided it"s true..?