Nice article: Answering the Atheists....

[Michie]

I thought this was an interesting article that might open up some good discussion on our beliefs. Hope you enjoy.


A Reader's Digest version of why I am a Christian.

Let's face it: Atheism is in. Not since Nietzsche have disbelievers enjoyed such a ready public reception to their godless message—and such near-miraculous royalties. But even that hasn't put them in a good mood. Snaps Christopher Hitchens, who wrote God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (although not, presumably, the pronouncements of atheists), "Many of the teachings of Christianity are, as well as being incredible and mythical, immoral." A feuding Richard Dawkins suggests that believers "just shut up." Apparently, they didn't get the tolerance memo.

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[SolomonVII]

Nietzche probably understood the problem with athiesm better than anyone. That would be, that once you have accepted the premise that a omni-benevolent omniscient, omnipotent God creating a world such as this defies reason, the athiest is still stuck with a world just like this.

By their own reasoning, nihilism and and even self-anihilation become the better option than meaningless suffering that life without God entails.

A twisted ankle, sure, a toothache here and there, fine. The joys of skiing and candy are ample compensation for such sufferings.

But what about an Auschwitz, Federick, or a Hiroshima, or lying among the slaightered dead in a Rwandan slaughter?

At exactly what point does this actually world require the possibility of transcendance?

No, it is not the beauty of this world that brings us to our knees seeking out God. It is its ugliness and its horror that absolutely requires God in order for us just to keep putting one foot in front of the other.

 

[Latreia]

I thought this was an interesting article that might open up some good discussion on our beliefs. Hope you enjoy.


A Reader's Digest version of why I am a Christian.



Continued- http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/november/28.74.html

Here is another quote from this link:

"Creation: The universe, far from being a howling wasteland indifferent to our existence, appears to be finely tuned through its estimated 13.7 billion years of existence to support life on this planet.

Tinker with any one of scores of fundamental physical laws or the initial conditions of the universe—such as gravity or the cosmological constant—and we would not be here.

As physicist Paul Davies has admitted, "I have come to believe more and more strongly that the physical universe is put together with an ingenuity so astonishing that I cannot accept it merely as a brute fact."

 

[Apollo Celestio]

Thanks.