Religious Poll

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by August

I think you're wrong. Any religion would fall apart if the practitioners come to believe that the deity they worship doesn't exist.

I disagree, but only about the nature of the question versus your answer. Your observation is true if they "came to believe" that their deity didn't exist. Sammi79's question seems to me to be asking whether most believers would "come to belive" the nonexistence if proof could indeed be shown. I see these as two different things entirely.

I fit your category of one who "came to believe" in the non-existence of God, though "doubt" is the better word for me than "belief".

On the other hand, a great majority of believers have such great faith that even if some proof could be established, their reaction would be to not accept it and try to disprove it.