RE: Atheist Evangelism
November 1, 2023 at 2:30 pm
(This post was last modified: November 1, 2023 at 2:31 pm by FrustratedFool.)
So, let's take a universalist Christianity (I was one for some years).
They would still claim the existence of God, the inspiration of the Bible, the need for salvation via the human blood sacrifice of Jesus, possibly the existence of miracles and healings, the goodness of faith, the necessity of the church (and its resourcing with people, time and money which could be spent elsewhere), the falseness or inferiority of other religions, probably the historicity of the Gospels, maybe the historicity of parts of the OT, the sanctity of marriage and monogamy, likely be anti-abortion, may hold to gender compatibilism, may be transphobic, believe in the idea of sin, hold to the efficacy of prayer, may believe in the special role of Jews and Judaism and Israel, may hold to retribution punishment and post-mortem punishment (though not ECT).
Their existence will also lend credence to far less benign versions of Christianity, and by further extension far less benign religions.
They would still claim the existence of God, the inspiration of the Bible, the need for salvation via the human blood sacrifice of Jesus, possibly the existence of miracles and healings, the goodness of faith, the necessity of the church (and its resourcing with people, time and money which could be spent elsewhere), the falseness or inferiority of other religions, probably the historicity of the Gospels, maybe the historicity of parts of the OT, the sanctity of marriage and monogamy, likely be anti-abortion, may hold to gender compatibilism, may be transphobic, believe in the idea of sin, hold to the efficacy of prayer, may believe in the special role of Jews and Judaism and Israel, may hold to retribution punishment and post-mortem punishment (though not ECT).
Their existence will also lend credence to far less benign versions of Christianity, and by further extension far less benign religions.
