My response to your responses.

1. I guess you are a stranger to deadpan humor. My understated (some might say snarky) point is that turning to the Bible to find evidence is silly because it amounts to nothing more than circular thinking. “By faith we understand…” Nope. Faith is not about understanding something. To understand something is to embrace knowledge about something (“I understand that Earth revolves around the sun”; “I understand that certain microbes cause disease”). Faith isn’t knowledge. Faith concerns believing in something simply because you want to believe in that something. Faith (of the religious kind) is useless and pointless.
2. My point here is that “God did it” is never an answer to or for anything. That’s what theists do when confronted by a mystery. Nobody knows what caused the Big Bang. Saying that a Celestial Being caused it isn’t an answer. It’s a belief.
3. Your response to this is inane. Are you suggesting that Jesus is a cosmic traveler, going from planet to planet where other intelligent life may live? Your response here is riddled, sadly, with logical errors and it makes me sad.
4. “How do you empirically prove that Jesus ISN’T substantially present?” How do you empirically prove that a red cup isn’t on a bare table? How do you empirically improve that the cup that isn’t there is a red cup? Do you see the idiocy of your request? To put this in a different context: It’s not for me to prove that Sasquatch or Nessie don’t exist; it’s the burden of those who claim that these creatures exist to present evidence for their claim.
5. See number four.
6. Once again you engage in circular thinking. If you or anyone claims we are moral creatures only because morality was injected into us by a Celestial Being, well, the onus is on the person to cough up evidence for this claim. In the meantime, a close look at evolution explains very well that morality is an emergent property of evolution.
7. Once again, you want to believe that “faith” is an instance of, or an expression of, knowledge. It is not. Faith and knowledge have no relationship with each other.
8. You didn’t answer my question. I’m still waiting to hear why anyone wants to believe that a certain schmuck wouldn’t die from asphyxiation from living inside an aquatic creature. But, see, my request is rather silly because it plays into the idea that a guy could live inside an aquatic creature. Wow. There are all sorts of idiotic religious beliefs, and while the story of Jonah and the whale wouldn’t make the top of the list, I’m inclined to put it in a category that I’m calling the “Top Ten Dumbest Things That Unthinking Theists Believe.” Hmm. Maybe that could be the name of my next essay. Thanks for inspiring me!
9. You also dodged this question. While I’m here, “sin” is nothing more than a religious fiction. It’s akin to believing in a “curse.” Sins and curses are fictional conceits. There is no evidence that either have anything to do with reality.
10. “How do you not know that your distaste for hell reflects God’s distaste for evil?” You ask this as if it is a serious question. Change a few details and you could pose this question in a sightly different guise for other fictional universes, such as the fictional universe of Harry Potter or the fictional universe of The Lord of the Rings. “So why are you afraid of hell?” Not me, that’s for sure, because I can’t be afraid of something that’s fictional.

I don’t love you Drew because I don’t know you. I don’t love strangers.

And with that, thanks for playing.

Have a good day.

Barry