A simple challenge for atheists

[SteveII]

So, the question remains, why does Christianity survive til today when so many other religions cease to exist?

Because people are too ignorant to recognize it as the mythology it is.

That's very insightful. So you are saying that Christianity is a little more tricky to discern the mythology than other religions were.

How about this: The Judeo-Christian worldview still fits the framework of facts we have discovered over the last 3000 years.

Was it just lucky that those sneaky church fathers built on the God of the Jews and thus avoided all the unpleasantness of chariots riding across the sky, child sacrifices to get some rain, or whatever pagan belief would be easily refuted by science?

While the scientific understanding of the world changed over time, the actual words in the OT/NT have never come down on the wrong side of science. Of course you are going to bring up creation. Augustine thought that the 6 days of creation were symbolic in 400 AD (way before Darwin). Anticipating that certain passages would be problematic he writes "In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received. In such cases, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search for truth justly undermines our position, we too fall with it."