Please feel free to E-mail me with your own comments on this issue or on anything else included in my Philosophy of Life section. This is the last of a four-part reply. None of this squares with the doctrine that a far, far better place awaits them in the afterlife. Jesus said that if people persecuted Him, they would also persecute us. All merely contain the doctrine to be followed by those who already believe.
Proof requires truth.
No, if Christianity can not be shown to be true, this leads to reasonable doubts about it. The problem is a misunderstanding of the nature of proof. The key is not a perfect of absolute certainty, as some believe, but a standard of proof that amounts to a moral certainty or puts the matter beyond a reasonable doubt. This standard is used in courts of law historically and today. It should be fairly obvious that the believers have not proven their case concerning Christianity since only about a third of the world's population believes it in the most general sense and since Christianity itself is subdivided into over 1500 different sects which each have their own incompatible versions of doctrine, dogma, and beliefs.