(September 7, 2011 at 11:55 am)Rhythm Wrote: All joking aside, what you will sometimes see is the explanation that the premise is that "god has revealed himself to us" making no mention of what is actually contained within that revelation.
True, they really start to tap dance when you want to get into specifics on Yahweh's goodness when his "Word" weighs in on moral no-brainer issues like slavery, rape and genocide.
My back-handed compliment to Christianity, that it's wild claims are fairly unique and it presents a slick package cleverly constructed to con the unwary or the uneducated, is actually one of the advantages I think it has over Islam and some other religions.
As I've moved from scrutinizing the claims of Christianity to those of Islam, I've been impressed by how crude Islam seems to be in comparison. While Christianity puts together a package of faux history where mythology is blended in with relatively recent historical events along with multiple dubious eye-witness accounts, Islam relies entirely on the testimony of one man who claims to have spoken with God (and it goes downhill from there).
This is not to say that I consider Christianity more rational than Islam. It's to say they have a better marketing department.
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
