Originally Posted by: HammurabiThey shouldn't, but they are and always have been.



You could, but the logical burden of proof is on christianity.[/quote]
Nope.
A lot of indegenous peoples all over the world believed in some god or other and worshipped the same long before christianity itself existed. Theres loads of evidence of that.

Originally Posted by: Hammurabi...For example, if jesus existed and performed miracles then there would clearly be historical proof of it...

Not necessarily.
Events taking place is one thing. Events being suitably chronicled and archived is another thing. The lack of the latter does not sufficiently exclude the former
[quote=Hammurabi]One could also make the claim that christianity's sources are a joke.

My friend, Christianity is one thing. The existence of God is another thing all together. Christianity is simply an amalgam of practices and traditions practiced by humanity. The existense of God is totally removed from the preactice of christianity. Christianity may well be a joke. That has nothing to do with the idea of God being a joke. Like I said, many peoples around the world worshipped some god or other [u]long before[/u] christianity reached their part of the world.