RE: Modern examples of gullibility as evidence against Christian claims
July 13, 2012 at 1:06 pm
Special pleading defense deployed in 3... 2... 1...
(July 11, 2012 at 5:44 pm)Godschild Wrote: Hinduism and Buddhism are about people even though they have many gods,That's actually a plus for them. Believing people existed is much easier than believing a godman walked the earth.
Quote:they are mostly sustained in poor and illiterate places,Good point. Dark Ages Europe, the environment in which Christianity tightened its hold, was a time of great opulence and higher learning.
Quote:the native American religions are sustained only by a few and within their own culture,Some religions are more intertwined with a culture than others. Christianity and Islam are examples of faiths that seek to win converts globally and transcend local culture. This makes them more marketable but not more likely to be true.
Quote:Islam is relatively new,By 600 years. And that's if you count Catholics as "Christians". If you limit "True Christianity" to Protestantism, that didn't come along until 500 years ago.
Quote:Judaism is the prophecy of Christianity,No it's not. Hence, why so few Jews convert.
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
