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Originally Posted by Adam  If a person is working purely from faith, then they do not have evidence to support their claims, which means that they do not have a constructive way to debate and refute people who challenge those claims. If they can not support their perspective, they begin to see that what they have been doing in regards to their religion may have been for nothing, which is a direct attack against the ego. |
Of course I can't justify it. That's the entire concept of "faith", isn't it? If I had evidence it wouldn't be faith, it would be fact.
Normally I just don't discuss it with people. But I think one of the reasons people tend to get defensive about it is that very few people (percentage-wise) actually want to
discuss religion. They either want you to listen to them talk about theirs, or they want you to tell them what you believe so they can point out all of the problems with what you believe (the latter come in both atheist and missionary varieties). So, all else being equal, experience has led me to assume that "What do you think about God?" or "What do you believe?" are opening salvos in an attack. This may cause me to get more defensive than the question would usually justify.