This is part 2 in our series “Is Christianity Harmful to Society.” You can read Part 1 here. Some say that religion is the problem with the world. Take the late Christopher Hitchens as one obvious example.1 But could it be that religion is not the actual problem? Take war, for instance. Is Christianity, or […]
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It has been often said that Christianity is harmful to society. Just look at the Crusades, Inquisitions, witch-burnings, etc. In fact, religion in general is harmful to society, at least according to some people. Atheists have even tried to turn this from a complaint about religion to an argument against Christianity. It basically goes that
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What is naturalism? The basic definition is only nature exists. Or to put it in another way: The space-time universe–which can be studied by the physical sciences–is all the reality there is. The basic argument that naturalists will give is that their worldview is simpler than theism because it requires fewer entities to explain the
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Why does God tell us to praise, worship, and glorify Him? Doesn’t that sound vain and conceited? Why is it wrong for us–but not God–to be proud? This is a common charge from atheists and agnostics to Christians. We read in scripture that God wants to make a name for Himself (2 Samuel 7:23; Nehemiah
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Do you believe in the supernatural? A survey from 2004 showed that thirty-nine percent of those living in the UK consider themselves atheists or agnostics.(1) Yet a more recent poll found that, while many of those in Britain are abandoning Christianity, their interest and faith in spirituality hasn’t gone anywhere. Over half (fifty-five percent) of
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Richard Dawkins is a globally celebrated evolutionary biologist, skeptic, and atheist who most well know for his famous books, The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion. In his book, The God Delusion,he summarizes what he calls “the central argument of my book.” The syllogism goes like this: Premise 1: One of the greatest challenges to the human
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