By Bill Flavell | 13 April 2016
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There is very little that we can prove in this world. However, we can look for evidence to support claims people make and, when there is sufficient supporting evidence and no contrary evidence, we can conclude a claim is probably true.
However, it is easier to prove something is false – all you need is contradictory evidence. Here are my eight reasons why Christianity is false. There is abundant evidence to support each reason. I don’t have space here to give the evidence but if you are not aware of it, I can provide it.
1. There is clear evidence that prayer does not work despite the Bible promising prayers will be answered.
2. There is clear evidence that humans invent gods and there is no reason to believe the Jewish god is an exception.
3. There is clear evidence that religions and gods are propagated through culture by infecting children, and no evidence that they are propagated by gods.
4. There is clear evidence that religions evolve as human understanding of the world changes whilst a real, God-given religion, should never need to change.
5. There is clear evidence that humans on this planet have unequal access to Christianity so, if Christianity is true, billions would be condemned to hell for no fault of their own. This contradicts the Christian notion that God is omni-benevolent.
6. There is clear evidence that the Bible, supposedly inspired by God, is riddled with the type of errors that we would expect from Iron Age men but not from the creator of the universe.
7. Christian theology is incoherent to the point of absurdity. God killing his son so he can forgive our future sin is like me breaking my son’s legs so I can forgive my neighbour in case she ever parks her car on my drive. It is quite ridiculous.
8. There is clear evidence that the arguments presented for the existence of God are founded on logical fallacies – all of them. All that is left for Christians is faith and their feelings. We know that faith and feelings can be used to believe in any god at all – including non-existent gods. So faith and feelings are epistemologically worthless. And that is all Christians have.
I rest my case.
Reprinted with permission from the author.
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For Loer06, regarding basic Christian theology, we all sin so we deserve to go to hell. So god, who loves us unconditionally, set up the rules, under which certain things are sins. We need someone perfect to sacrifice himself so our sins are forgiven. What kind of goofy system is that. It just takes the superstitions of a primitive tribe and uses them to create a theology that makes no logical sense.
How were these rules set up? Didn't the all knowing god know that a very high percentage of the children he supposedly loves would fail (being just human) and end up being tortured for all eternity. Who would set up such a system?
I'll tell you who would. A primitive tribe that believed all sorts of superstitious nonsense. The god of the old testament is a psycho, ordering his "chosen" to brutally murder innocents, all the while proclaiming his greatness. The god of the New testament condemns a sizeable portion of his "children" to eternal punishment even if they had never heard of him. C'mon. Wake up!
God and Jesus Aren't real either.