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Catholic church canonises its first gamer saint, and one of his favourite games was Halo
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My man, following your logic this means that Buddhism is real because Siddhartha Gautama, Islam is real because the prophet Muhammad, and Mormonism is real because Joseph Smith's lying ass. Just because a historical figure claims there's a god does not mean that it's actual evidence that a god exists.
Weigh it up. Mohammed was lying because he wanted more wives and political power. Joseph Smith was the same. Jesus got merked for his teachings and so did his followers for the first three hundred years.
Couldn't Jesus have been lying for political power? That is what his fellow Jews and the Romans accused him of. Joseph Smith was "merked" and his followers persecuted for their faith, does that make their beliefs true?
You can't selectively apply logic to your perspective alone. I'm not denying your beliefs, just the logic that you use to argue their validity.
The reason they call it faith is because it is something you believe in despite not being able to offer any proof. You have faith, not knowledge that what you believe is true. Imo that's fine, but you can't have faith in something and then force your beliefs on others, claim them to be definitive truth, or deny other people their own beliefs.