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On a different tack, shouldn't the lost also include those who believe differently to yourself? After all if you're party to the real truth of everything and others believe differently aren't they wrong?

In answer to your first question; Perhaps just ignore the differences? I think that may be difficult when people are claiming the one true Truth™ but I'm sure it's possible in most cases. To your second; Converting the un-converted should be relatively easy. All that's needed are good solid...

I'm not convinced. These people are poorly educated and superstitious. This is a fertile ground for religion, as societies like this do tend to be very religious. Will they really be better off believing our myths over their own? Why should we export our tribalism over there when they have a...

Science is the study of the world around us. To a Christian science must be the study of God's creation. On the one hand we have a book written by (some would say inspired) man, on the other we have God's direct creation itself. One message is filtered through fallible man and the other...

:wave: Take the problem of evil, free will vs. predestination, the problems of omnipotence or any of the other problems. Don't let them bamboozle you with feel good stories of love and forgiveness. You DO tell kids there is no Santa Claus? You are such a bad person. ;)

There is nothing like creationism for demonstrating the pitfalls of the vice of faith. If you're going to "just believe" something that does not appear to be true then in extremis you may start to believe something which is demonstrably untrue (and become convinced that this is a virtue).

Well I suspect some religious people are going to try and make their religion sound plausible, while subtley skirting the problems therein. I'd be interested in your experience if you would post it here. Take some good questions with you. I've had an inkling to attend one for a while but I...

Don't forget you are also trying to employ the morality of primitive people who regarded women as property. This is always going to be problematic in a society that has moved beyond that. Not everyone views sex as a bad thing, nor do they think a woman is worth less if she has had sex, because...

As your new Christian friends will generally be (shamefully but unsurprisingly) unwilling to mention that elephant, I would like to say that it does appear that you have been lied to. But not by who you think. I hope you enjoy Christianity and that your New Life Church does not teach you to...

To be honest I think it must adjust or find itself irrelevant. Isn't this what has happened throughout history? Humanity seems to drag the Church (or, all the churches) along kicking and screaming.

If God is all powerful then nothing can happen without it's permission. This is unavoidable.

I agree. American Christianity is far removed from the Christianity I was raised with. :thumbsup::amen: Low-brow nonsense popular culture!

Is that what we are really told? I certainly was never told that as a youngster. That's going to depend on your definition of what it is to be a Christian. It seems to me that Christian morality is improving in this fashion, albeit at a slightly retarded rate. It must be difficult in a world in...

I honestly think if a theist was to grasp atheism they would become an atheist. Once the view is comprehended all the mystery and problems of theism are answered in one quick concise and obvious answer.

I don't think it does. In the prosperous and educated first world numbers of believers are shrinking. The things that Christianity has been saying for centuries are being recognised as immoral or just plain incorrect. I'm not even sure it's secularisation will help as if it comes to agree...

Ask the North Koreans.

Has the Republican party been infiltrated by detractors in order to bring it down from the inside or is the movement that uncredible?

ID/creationism is the essential dishonesty of faith writ large.

You've more in common with the Palestinians than you'll admit.

So you can't see a conflict of interest problem here? A man comes to you with a book he's written that claims your house is his and you wouldn't see a problem with it?