Faith is perhaps best summed up by Richard Dawkins in this quote:
"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."
I am raised under the Christian Orthodox religion, but i am glad that my parents always told me before believing in anything,(not only religion), read about it so that you know what you believe in. And so i did, and by reading the whole Bible and the Gospels, but also some books that say things about Christianism that you don't read in the books af the church, i find it impossible to believe in any God, call him as you like......(Allah , Budha, e.t.c)
Oh and something to think on.....
Jesus preached only to Judhea. How come Jews who listened to his preachings don't believe in him but every one else does?
"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived." -Isaac Asimov
I too, as opposed to most Christians, have read the Bible in its' entirety. Full of contradictions and hate, the Bible has solidified my atheism.
Many Christians believe that the Bible should not be taken as the literal Word of God, but was meant to be interpreted as the inspired Word of God written by man. These are the most hypocritical of all people belonging to any faith. Little do they realise that interpret really means ignore. In the New Testament, Christ tells everyone to obey God's laws in the Old. In Deuteronomy 13:1-, God tells man to not add or take away or add to his word. Somewhere else in the Old Testament, man is told that he must adhere to God's laws above Moses's(10 commandments). If Christians knew this today, then they would have to comply with their Christian faith by not only murdering one who opposes their faith, but to exterminate homosexuals, and many others as well.
All Christians, as ignorant hypocrites, live by their faith due to its convenience.
Think about it, faith caters to all of man's needs. Faith in God soothes man ultimate fear (fear of death) and promises him an afterlife with God in heaven. This is the perfect assurance to man's ego.
The Christian God also provides a higher authority to facilitate order, a singularity to meditate on, and the two most important, and destructive aspects; the excuse to place responsibility outside ones self, and the excuse to not evaluate evidence.
Gods were created by man in ancient times and have helped us along the way. Ultimately, religion is destruction and if humans are ever wiped off the face of the planet, I believe the root cause wil be religion(aside from an asteroid impact).
IMO, all humans can dissprove faith in Gods in their own way, by use of logic, morals, and/or science.