[Ammi]

..surely the question answers itself really...because if something was visible, if people who had faith and belief in something could 'see', then no faith would be required would it..I can't see love but I believe in it because I feel it, I can't see hate but I believe in it because I feel it, I can't see worry/stress/sadness etc but I believe because I feel/we all feel and we all have faith in something in our lives...and things that aren't 'visible'...because that is the whole point and definition of faith isn't it...and with a God, if that's where some people's faith lies..?..well it's one of those things really, that a big part of that surely is that they will never 'meet' in life in terms of actually seeing their God, because that meeting for them won't come until death..but they have faith in life and although they don't 'see', they feel, they feel their God in life...but it's no different really when you think about it for many people who only believe in 'proven'...scientists can spend their whole entire lives having faith in something, in it's existence etc and the trying to prove it and can go into death never having done so/so for them it's been a belief and a faith really...this scientist 'proved' this/this scientist proved that...this is the date/this is the time when it was proven and then it became 'fact'..but how many scientists before in their lifetime's works/studies/research etc were never able to, so all they had was their total faith and their belief to be true...(and also many things still to be proven in an absolute way..)..

...anyways, just like everything else, there is interpretation and the 'slanting' of religion to try to excuse and to try justify in cases of intolerances/prejudices etc and the extremes of terrorist act...but there are also many people of religion that interpret positively as well and feel that their religion helps them to be more tolerant/less prejudice etc...and that's because people are people/always have been and always will be and good/bad/positive/negative/extremes of and all the in-betweens of...