10 Questions Every Christian Needs To Answer.

[Polaris]

1. How is the method by which you became a Christian reliable?

Praying...did it many times before and it worked (Holy Spirit and such, not the answered prayers stuff you hear people talk about).

2. Apart from church dogma, how can you know what happens when we die?

I really don't care about the afterlife. I prefer to live in the here and now.

3. What if you and your silly bible are wrong and there is no heaven, hell or afterlife of any kind?

I'd just be dead and not be in any capacity to care.

4. If you are God's unthinking lacky, how can you call yourself moral? Do you really think morality is simply a question of rule following?

I just live my life according to the values I intrinsically have had...I added a few restrictions (not marrying a divorced woman, abstaining from eating blood), but that is just extra.

5. Even if there is a God, you are obviously free to do what you want. The prisons are full of Christians. Do you or do you not believe God gave man free will?

On the prisons being full of Christians, prison is a depressing place and many turn to faith because they have nowhere else to turn. It's what gets many through the misery.

6. If all you do is follow God's rules, how does your life have any meaning? What makes it your life?

There is a lot of freedom in the in-between especially since I don't have to follow a lot of the restrictions that both observant Jews and Moslems face.

7. Where did that which you believe created the universe come from? (And if anything can always have existed, why not the universe and all its prior conditions?)

I change my beliefs of the origin of the universe based upon the best scientific data that is available...collapsing universe theory was my favored before the new data on dark energy was made available.

8. What about miracles? Aside from the most ridiculous claims, wouldn't most of what technology makes possible today have seemed miraculous to the ancients? So what's the big deal?

They didn't have the technology unless you really believe in ancient aliens.

9. What’s your view of Dawkins, Hitchens and Harris? Do you read anything else but the bible?

I read outside of the Bible, but don't waste my time on people resorting to philosophy. I haven't read much from the Christian authors for that matter either, which also use philosophy to back up their points.

10. If there is but one God, then why does every society have a different religion? [Props to Jenny.]
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The majority of the people of this world all claim to worship the same God, but do so in a way fitting with their cultural values. If you want the hardcore Fundie version, the other people worship demons.