Although this is directed at atheists.
I find that religion, particularly the mythological side of religion to be very fascinating, but that does not necessarily mean I believe in it, thus have faith.
I would like more evidence or proof before I could accept the existence of god or gods...or even goddesses.
Words from scripture only provide evidence of the testimony (from various scriptures, of various religion) of what they believe, but these can hardly be called definitive.
For me, they are more like story or myth, than of actual history. Some may history may be involved, but trying to shift through the real from the imaginary is not an easy task.
I can accept natural miracles, like a person surviving 100-metre fall or that a person are clincally dead, but somehow revived, but not that of the miracles that appeared in the bible or qur'an or other scriptures.
The Genesis' Creation and the Ark lacked real evidence. There are lot of evidences that contradict the Creation. How do we prove that God exist or that there is an afterlife, which some of these religions professed to exist? How do people believe in so called God's books and angelic visitations, accepting the testimony like from Muhammad or Joseph Smith?
I don't think atheists, or that of agnostics like me, are being unreasonable for questioning or criticising the validity of their scriptures or that of the theists' claims of this miracle or that.
I mean the atheists and agnostics are not only the ones who are critical of theists. Theists are critical of religion that they don't believe or follow. Islamic theists believed that Judaism and Christianity have being corrupted, and Christian theists believed that Muhammad is a false prophet. Both of these two religions object to pagan or polytheistic religion. I find theists are being hypocritical when they object to atheists being critical of them, when they are critical of other religions that they follow.
The only difference between atheists and theists is that atheists want more evidence than just faith and their holy scriptures, whereas theists are ready to believe in them because of their faith.
But of course, atheists saying that theists are deluded just because they don't believe, would be considered awfully rude.