(May 26, 2017 at 8:26 am)SteveII Wrote:Christianity scored:(May 26, 2017 at 7:36 am)Harry Nevis Wrote: Christians can't claim that any other religious believer can't have an authentic experience. You're all on the same sandy footing.
I am still not sure the precise nature of other religion's claims to a personal relationship with God. As I mentioned, if all a religion is describing is a personal awareness of God, I will grant that is not only possible, I would say it is true (as the Romans verses mention). So if that is the case, what's left is to examined the religions for evidence, internal consistency, predictive power, and answers to life's basic questions (including foundations for morality, purpose, value, and the future).
Internal consistency - Complete failure. Christianity contains multitude inconsistencies
Evidence, Complete failure
Predictive power - Complete Failure
Answers to life's basic questions:
a)foundation for morality - Complete Failure (atheists and people of other religions are of equal or greater morality)
b) purpose - not a complete failure, I'll grant it this. We all have to invent some purpose, though none of you seem to agree on what that purpose is, because you too are inventing it, just with different ideas from this widely inconsistent religion.
c)value - complete failure.
d)The...future? Wha?? The future predicted by your religion includes an apocalypse in which most people die, making followers take a real devil-may-care attitude about taking care of things like wildlife and clean air for future generations. So I mark this as the absolute WORST failure of your religion.
Wow, it didn't fail in one of the 7 things you listed.
/facealm
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
