Editing Skepticism (section)

===Religion===
{{Main|Religious skepticism}}
Religious skepticism generally refers to doubting particular religious beliefs or claims. For example, a religious skeptic might believe that [[Jesus]] existed (see [[historicity of Jesus]]) while questioning claims that he was the messiah or performed miracles. Historically, religious skepticism can be traced back to [[Xenophanes]], who doubted many religious claims of his time, although he recognized that "[[God]] is one, supreme among gods and men, and not like mortals in body or in mind." He maintained that there was one greatest God. God is one eternal being, spherical in form, comprehending all things within himself, is the absolute mind and thought, therefore is intelligent, and moves all things, but bears no resemblance to human nature either in body or mind."<ref>{{cite book |last1=McKirahan |first1=Richard D. |title="Xenophanes of Colophon" |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5UvjwAEACAAJ |website=23 March 2024 |publisher=Hackett Publishing Company |pages=60–62 |date=1994|isbn=978-0-87220-175-0 }}</ref>

Religious skepticism is not the same as [[atheism]] or [[agnosticism]], though these often do involve skeptical attitudes toward religion and philosophical theology (for example, towards divine [[omnipotence]]). Religious people are generally skeptical about claims of other religions, at least when the two denominations conflict concerning some belief. Additionally, they may also be skeptical of the claims made by atheists.

The historian [[Will Durant]] writes that [[Plato]] was "as skeptical of atheism as of any other dogma". The [[Baháʼí Faith]] encourages skepticism that is mainly centered around self-investigation of
truth.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Peter |title=A Concise Encyclopedia of the Baháʼí Faith |year=2000 |location=Oxford, U.K.|publisher= Oneworld Publications |isbn=1-85168-184-1 |pages=266–267}}</ref>