I would imagine that most of you people in here dont believe in the literal "fire and brimstone" eternal hell.  (though i could be surprised).

With my catholic upbringing as a child, hell was taught to us as a real place that existed, this idea stayed in my head well into my teens, it's taken quite a few years to wean myself off of this concept. My brother in particular was affected quite badly with threats of hell, .. these have even accompanied him into adulthood in various guises.

Do you simply see hell as a place that is somehow "not with god"? which could mean some kind of an eternal emptiness. I'd be quite happy with that really, .. it reminds me of Mark Twains quote when asked about death .."I was nothing for billions of years, and it didn't inconveinience me in the slightest"

It would be interesting to hear any personal views of hell.

One of the reasons that I lost my faith was coming to terms with the fact ( from what i'd observed),  that god does not seem to intervene with the natural forces that govern us in any way shape or form, at least in a way that we can observe with any degree of certainty.

The term miracle I'm well aware has a very broad span in general use, .. "it was a miracle", says some person who survived a nasty car accident,.. yes, these incidents happen all the time.  I dont regard these strictly as miracles in the true sense of the word, ..to me, that person had a lucky escape.

I'm talking more about the dictionary definition of "a supernatural occurance that defies the laws of nature".   Do these "true miracles happen"?

For example, Could god heal an amputee?. To the best of my knowledge there are no former amputees in the world.  Would we be pushing our luck to ask god to re grow lost limbs?

The New Testament is full of Jesus's miracles, .. As a child, learning about these wonderous events, I accepted them as fact unquestionably, it's only later in life I actually stopped and questioned myself as to the veracity of these wonders. With a skeptical head on, you begin to see a completely different story, though just as compelling.

So, in a nutshell, .. do miracles in their supernatural sense, happen, .. if so, what evidence is there?

Can i ask a question about faith in general?

Why do you believe what you believe?  (I'm an atheist) .. please be kind to me