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Here are nine questions that every Christian should consider. 

 

1. How do you believe in something you don't believe in?  What would it take for you to believe something to be true that you currently believe to be false?  This is also what the atheist says.

 

2. Would you seek a lawyer to perform a root canal?  Or a doctor for an electrical installation?  Would you want an atheist representing your faith?  Likewise, it's not fair or even logical for a creationist to represent evolution.

 

3. If teaching evolution in schools is a form of brainwashing, then isn't teaching religion in churches even more a form of brainwashing?  Brainwashing is a process in which a group influences impressionable minds by limiting their exposure to outside ideas, usually by means of fear tactics.

 

4. If you can so easily deny the contradictions and inconsistencies in the Bible, do you not also think it's reasonable to expect someone of a different religion to deny the contradictions and inconsistencies in their holy text?  If you're justified in seeing the problems with other religions, then aren't people outside your religion justified in seeing problems with yours?  There are many problems in the Christian faith, including biblical errors, its theology and its blatant contradictions with the known, observable world.

 

5. Is it moral for an atheist to try to make a theist doubt their worldview?  Is it moral for a theist to try to make an atheist doubt their worldview?  To claim that the theist has a greater reward to offer (heaven) and that the atheist has a greater punishment waiting (hell) is only valid if these realms can be proven to actually exist.

 

6. Atheists believe wholeheartedly that their worldview is correct.  Does this make them deserving of hell if they are wrong?  Muslims believe wholeheartedly that their worldview is correct.  Does this make them deserving of hell if they are wrong?  Christians believe wholeheartedly that their worldview is correct.  Does this make them deserving of hell if they are wrong?

 

7. If Islam is one of the devil's ways of keeping people from the truth of Christianity, then isn't Christianity one of the devil's ways of keeping people from the truth of Judaism?  Just as Christianity is considered progressive revelation and Judaism's successor, Islam is also considered progressive revelation and Christianity's successor.

 

8. If an atheist rejects Christianity only to continue to live in their sinful ways, then doesn't a Christian reject Judaism and Islam only to continue to eat pork and wear polyester clothing?  Jews and Muslims agree that eating pork, for example, is strictly forbidden by God.  Christianity is the only major Abrahamic religion that ignores this commandment (among many others) despite the fact that Jesus clearly says he didn't come to abolish the law. To say that Christians don't adhere to the Jewish or Islamic faiths just so they can eat pork is as absurd as saying the atheist doesn't adhere to the Christian faith just so they can live in sin.

 

9. If faith is a virtue, then isn't it actually a compliment to say the atheist has more of what you believe you should have?  In all honesty, the atheist has no faith in the supernatural.  Atheists see blind faith not as a virtue, but as gullibility.  And as the saying goes...the invisible and the nonexistent look a lot alike.

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Great list. You should put this in the den.

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Brilliant. 3 is great for getting middle-of-the-road secularists to be more enthusiastic, 8 for being absolutely hilarious and I'd love to use the final part of 9 as a quote to include in my full extimony, with your permission. Do you know who came up with that originally?

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Excellent!  I agree this should go in the Lion's Den.  If any christians dare to answer, it might be interesting --  and at the very least entertaining to watch them stumble all over themselves.

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Sure, I'll post it in the Lion's Den.  And you don't need my permission to use the last line, Max...It's not mine either.  I've seen it around and I really like it, but I don't know who coined the phrase.

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