Some atheists resent living in Western societies that have been heavily influenced by Christianity, including the annual celebration of Christmas. In contrast, Robert Fulford (who prefers to describe himself as an โunbelieverโ), says that he appreciates the influence of Christianity and enjoys Christmas. He writes, "Every Christmas I find myself grateful to live in a Christian-dominant community within a civilization that has been constructed by Christianityโฆ"
He then goes on to talk about how the moral principles, found in the Bible, have shaped his society in positive ways.
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When someone says that any claim about Jesus, Christianity, or religion in general, is just โyour truth,โ what they are trying to do is turn an objective claim about reality into a subjective claim. This is an indirect way of saying that something is false without actually giving any good reasons. Itโs easy to see the problem with it when itโs used to respond to other objective claims.
Imagine if you told an average American citizen that they were not (contrary to what they believed) the King of England. โOh, thatโs just true for you,โ the person responds. Or suppose you told a powerful slave owner that treating his slaves cruelly was wrong. โThatโs just true for you,โ he insists.
In both cases, the two persons would be implicitly rejecting the objective statements as false without actually giving any good reasons.
If youโre looking for a good response, (politely) ask the person who says Christianity is โjust your truth,โ how they *know* itโs โjustโyour truth.โ Or if you want to use their approach, ask them whether their claim that โChristianity is just true for youโ is something that is โjust true for them?โ
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Is religious hypocrisy disgusting? Is it sickening? Does it even matter?
It certainly does. And it mattered to Jesus too.
Jesus spent a lot of time decrying the hypocritical religious leaders of his day. He even used scathing language to expose and denounce their double standards. Hereโs what he said:
In todayโs world, many people are also repulsed by hypocrisy. And in this sense, they are like Jesus.
However, some people take things a step further and they refuse to have anything to do with God because of the religious hypocrites they encounter. Furthermore, they donโt want to go to any church, where God is worshiped, because of hypocrites. Their lives are devoid of any expression of love for their Creator.
This refusal to love God, to worship him, and to praise him, is all justified by pointing to hypocrisy.
Does this make sense? Is it justified?
Not at all.
To understand why, imagine you had a sister who was always telling you to love your parents and to love all people. One day you found out that she had been very cruel to a large group of people, and so she was clearly a hypocrite. She had repeatedly said to love everyone but she obviously had not done so herself. She clearly did not โpractiseโ what she โpreached.โ
If you found yourself disgusted by her, that would be a completely understandable response.
But what if you decided to take things a step further and you cut off all contact with your loving and kind parents? Would that make sense?
Obviously not.
Why should your loving parents be rejected and ignored because of your sisterโs actions? They were not hypocrites. She was. So why should you reject them because of your sister?
This same reasoning applies to those who ignore God because of religious hypocrites. Hypocrisy is certainly something to be disgusted by; but how does that justify ignoring and rejecting God? If the Christian God exists, then he deserves to be worshiped no matter how many hypocrites there are.
Pointing to hypocrisy as the reason we don't worship God, is just a lame excuse. Itโs simply an attempt to justify one wrong by pointing to another wrong.
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Every day countless people say things like โDonโt lie to meโ or โYou should help the poorโ or โYou should not murder the innocent.โ But most people never stop to ask themselves, why should anyone follow these pronouncements? That is, what aspect of reality makes these moral statements true? And what makes them binding on other people, even if they donโt agree?
There are three possible answers to this question. The first one is to base their truth in the minds of people. That is, a moral statement is true simply because someone thinks it is. The problem with this is that it reduces morality to a matter of opinion and therefore it canโt be binding on other people. Morality becomes akin to oneโs favorite flavour of ice cream. Just as it makes no sense to say that someoneโs favorite flavour is wrong, so it makes no sense to say that a mass murderer is wrong, even though he thinks he is right.
The second option is to base moral truths on some aspect of the physical world. The problem with this option is that no physical object has any moral implications. One canโt point to a table as the reason why people should be kind, or point to the sun as the basis of generosity; or point to a rock as the reason not to murder. Physical things simply donโt have moral implications.
The third and last option is to base morality on some non-physical aspect of reality. This is the only option that allows moral statements to be objectively true and therefore binding on people regardless of whether they agree. And it is this non-physical reality that many people identify as God.
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Some people claim that because all religions are essentially the same, therefore theyโre all essentially true. These same people will also insist that itโs arrogant to think that โyour religionโ is superior to all others.
But what these people donโt understand is that they are actually being arrogant. Itโs arrogant to think that โall the religions are trueโ because many of the founders and leaders of the worldโs religions endured great hardshipโand even perishedโin order to advance their religion. For example, in the early days of Islam, Muhammad, and his followers fled to Medina in order to escape the persecution in Mecca. Around the start of Mormonism, Brigham Young led his followers on a long and arduous journey in order to continue practicing Mormonism in freedom. During the reign of Asoka, Buddhists sent out many missionaries to propagate their religious convictions. And during the Roman Empire, Christians refused to give up their faith in Jesus despite brutal persecution.
Why would the different religions of the world do this if they didnโt think their religion was true and that others were (at least partially) wrong? If they believed they were spreading an idea that was essentially the same as all the others, why would they be prepared to exert so much effort, and even endure enormous suffering? Obviously, they did not think their religion was the same as all the others. They did not think all religions were true. They must have thought their religion was substantially different from what already existed, and that it was crucial people knew this. The person who claims โall the religions are the same and true,โ is claiming to know the nature of those religions better than their founders, leaders, and missionaries.
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Many people object to the truth of Christianity by pointing out that oneโs religious beliefs largely depend on the family and society that one is raised in. For example, Dr. Philip Kitcher highlights this issue.
The implication of this reality, at least according to atheists like Kitcher, is that all religions are false. However, does this necessarily follow? The respected Christian philosopher, Dr. Alvin Plantinga, points out that the same societal influences used to dismiss religion can also be used to dismiss atheism. Is atheism false simply because atheists are affected by their society?
Although people are influenced by their family and society, this does not determine that any religion is false. Christianity can still be true despite Kitcherโs observation.
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When Charles Darwin published his landmark book The Origin of Species, he recognized that the burden of proof was on him if he was going to explain the evident design of biological life apart from the actions of an intelligent mind. And this he sought to do by providing an explanation for how species originated through the process of natural selection. Darwinโs theory eventually gained great acceptance throughout the scientific community but there was one area that Darwin did not even attempt to provide any kind of plausible explanation for โ the origin of the first replicating cell. This was, and is, a very important piece of the puzzle; for if natural selection is to act, there must first be some type of replicating organism that natural selection can act upon. And since, as Darwin recognized, the burden of proof lies on those who argue against the idea of Intelligent Design, this has prompted a significant amount of research by the scientific community.
An article in Scientific American was published in 2011 and titled โPssst! Don't Tell the Creationists, but Scientists Don't Have a Clue How Life Beganโ. It notes that so far, the scientific community has failed to discover any plausible explanation for lifeโs origin. The situation is so desperate that some scientists are arguing that life was intentionally placed here by aliens from outer space. The author notes,
Although the article rejects the idea of Intelligent Design (ID) (and it certainly rejects the idea that the designer could have been God) the fact remains that the burden of proof lies on those who deny ID. And given the scientific community's failure to explain the origin of the first replicating organism, this burden has yet to be met.
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โIf God wants us to believe in him, why doesnโt he just show himself?โ
This question is certainly worth thinking about. Christianity describes God as all-good and all-powerful, and it claims that God wants everyone to believe in him. If thatโs the case, then why doesnโt he just show himself in the sky for everyone to see? Why (partially) hide himself from us?
One possible answer to this is that God partially hides himself so that we can have time to repent of our sins instead of facing immediate judgment. To understand this, consider a teacher with two students in her class โ Bob and Jose. Bob understands English and can hear perfectly. But Jose speaks English as a second language and is partially deaf. The teacher gives her students clear instructions about what they are to do and strictly warns them not to do otherwise. She then goes away and comes back. Upon her return, she finds that both Bob and Jose disobeyed. Upon questioning them, she finds out that Bob simply refused to do what he was told but Jose disobeyed partially because he wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do. In this situation, shouldnโt the teacher treat Jose more leniently than Bob?
This may be part of the reason God partially hides himself from us. We often assume that if God fully revealed himself in all his glory, everyone would obey him. But that isn't necessarily the case. The fact that God partially hides himself could be intentional so that God can (justly) permit us to sin without facing any immediate and eternal judgment. Since his existence and will for our lives are not as evident as they could be, God can (for a time) be lenient toward us. And this gives us the opportunity to repent, turn toward him, and realize how dependent we are on him for doing what is right.
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When someone says that any claim about Jesus, Christianity, or religion in general, is just โyour truth,โ what they are trying to do is turn an objective claim about reality into a subjective claim. This is an indirect way of saying that something is false without actually giving any good reasons. Itโs easy to see the problem with it when itโs used to respond to other objective claims.
Imagine if you told an average American citizen that they were not (contrary to what they believed) the King of England. โOh, thatโs just true for you,โ the person responds. Or suppose you told a powerful slave owner that treating his slaves cruelly was wrong. โThatโs just true for you,โ he insists.
In both cases, the two persons would be implicitly rejecting the objective statements as false without actually giving any good reasons.
If youโre looking for a good response, (politely) ask the person who says Christianity is โjust your truth,โ how they *know* itโs โjustโyour truth.โ Or if you want to use their approach, ask them whether their claim that โChristianity is just true for youโ is something that is โjust true for them?โ
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Some atheists resent living in Western societies that have been heavily influenced by Christianity, including the annual celebration of Christmas. In contrast, Robert Fulford (who prefers to describe himself as an โunbelieverโ), says that he appreciates the influence of Christianity and enjoys Christmas. He writes, "Every Christmas I find myself grateful to live in a Christian-dominant community within a civilization that has been constructed by Christianityโฆ"
He then goes on to talk about how the moral principles, found in the Bible, have shaped his society in positive ways.
๐โ๐ ๐ก๐๐ข๐กโ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐ก ๐๐ข๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ฆ โ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ฆ ๐ถโ๐๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ฆ, ๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ โ๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ , ๐คโ๐๐กโ๐๐ ๐ค๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ก๐๐ ๐ก๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ก. ๐ถโ๐๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ก๐๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ค๐ ๐๐๐๐๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ โ๐๐๐ ๐ค๐๐กโ๐๐ ๐ข๐ .
๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ค๐ ๐ โ๐๐ข๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐ค๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐กโ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐ ๐ก ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ก ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ ๐๐ค๐. ๐๐ ๐ โ๐๐ข๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐ก ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ. ๐๐ ๐ โ๐๐ข๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ โ๐๐๐๐ ๐ก ๐๐๐๐๐ข๐๐ก ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ . ๐โ๐๐ ๐ค๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ค ๐๐๐ก๐๐ง๐๐๐ ๐๐ โ๐๐๐๐,โ ๐ค๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ ๐ข๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐ ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐ก ๐กโ๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ค ๐กโ๐ ๐ค๐๐ฆ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐ก ๐ค๐ โ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ข๐ ๐๐ฆ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ก, ๐๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ถโ๐๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐ข๐๐ ๐ข๐ . ๐ผ๐ ๐ค๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ก ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ค๐๐ฆ ๐ก๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐กโ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐กโ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ , ๐ค๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ .
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When someone says that any claim about Jesus, Christianity, or religion in general, is just โyour truth,โ what they are trying to do is turn an objective claim about reality into a subjective claim. This is an indirect way of saying that something is false without actually giving any good reasons. Itโs easy to see the problem with it when itโs used to respond to other objective claims.
Imagine if you told an average American citizen that they were not (contrary to what they believed) the King of England. โOh, thatโs just true for you,โ the person responds. Or suppose you told a powerful slave owner that treating his slaves cruelly was wrong. โThatโs just true for you,โ he insists.
In both cases, the two persons would be implicitly rejecting the objective statements as false without actually giving any good reasons.
If youโre looking for a good response, (politely) ask the person who says Christianity is โjust your truth,โ how they *know* itโs โjustโyour truth.โ Or if you want to use their approach, ask them whether their claim that โChristianity is just true for youโ is something that is โjust true for them?โ
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Is religious hypocrisy disgusting? Is it sickening? Does it even matter?
It certainly does. And it mattered to Jesus too.
Jesus spent a lot of time decrying the hypocritical religious leaders of his day. He even used scathing language to expose and denounce their double standards. Hereโs what he said:
๐โ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐โ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ โฆ ๐๐๐๐๐โ, ๐๐ข๐ก ๐๐ ๐๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐โฆ ๐โ๐๐ฆ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ก๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฆ ๐๐กโ๐๐๐ .
๐๐๐ ๐ก๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ข, ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐โ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ , โ๐ฆ๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐ !.. ๐๐๐ข ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ , ๐ฆ๐๐ข ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๐ , โ๐๐ค ๐๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ข ๐ก๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ก๐ โ๐๐๐?
In todayโs world, many people are also repulsed by hypocrisy. And in this sense, they are like Jesus.
However, some people take things a step further and they refuse to have anything to do with God because of the religious hypocrites they encounter. Furthermore, they donโt want to go to any church, where God is worshiped, because of hypocrites. Their lives are devoid of any expression of love for their Creator.
This refusal to love God, to worship him, and to praise him, is all justified by pointing to hypocrisy.
Does this make sense? Is it justified?
Not at all.
To understand why, imagine you had a sister who was always telling you to love your parents and to love all people. One day you found out that she had been very cruel to a large group of people, and so she was clearly a hypocrite. She had repeatedly said to love everyone but she obviously had not done so herself. She clearly did not โpractiseโ what she โpreached.โ
If you found yourself disgusted by her, that would be a completely understandable response.
But what if you decided to take things a step further and you cut off all contact with your loving and kind parents? Would that make sense?
Obviously not.
Why should your loving parents be rejected and ignored because of your sisterโs actions? They were not hypocrites. She was. So why should you reject them because of your sister?
This same reasoning applies to those who ignore God because of religious hypocrites. Hypocrisy is certainly something to be disgusted by; but how does that justify ignoring and rejecting God? If the Christian God exists, then he deserves to be worshiped no matter how many hypocrites there are.
Pointing to hypocrisy as the reason we don't worship God, is just a lame excuse. Itโs simply an attempt to justify one wrong by pointing to another wrong.
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Every day countless people say things like โDonโt lie to meโ or โYou should help the poorโ or โYou should not murder the innocent.โ But most people never stop to ask themselves, why should anyone follow these pronouncements? That is, what aspect of reality makes these moral statements true? And what makes them binding on other people, even if they donโt agree?
There are three possible answers to this question. The first one is to base their truth in the minds of people. That is, a moral statement is true simply because someone thinks it is. The problem with this is that it reduces morality to a matter of opinion and therefore it canโt be binding on other people. Morality becomes akin to oneโs favorite flavour of ice cream. Just as it makes no sense to say that someoneโs favorite flavour is wrong, so it makes no sense to say that a mass murderer is wrong, even though he thinks he is right.
The second option is to base moral truths on some aspect of the physical world. The problem with this option is that no physical object has any moral implications. One canโt point to a table as the reason why people should be kind, or point to the sun as the basis of generosity; or point to a rock as the reason not to murder. Physical things simply donโt have moral implications.
The third and last option is to base morality on some non-physical aspect of reality. This is the only option that allows moral statements to be objectively true and therefore binding on people regardless of whether they agree. And it is this non-physical reality that many people identify as God.
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Some people claim that because all religions are essentially the same, therefore theyโre all essentially true. These same people will also insist that itโs arrogant to think that โyour religionโ is superior to all others.
But what these people donโt understand is that they are actually being arrogant. Itโs arrogant to think that โall the religions are trueโ because many of the founders and leaders of the worldโs religions endured great hardshipโand even perishedโin order to advance their religion. For example, in the early days of Islam, Muhammad, and his followers fled to Medina in order to escape the persecution in Mecca. Around the start of Mormonism, Brigham Young led his followers on a long and arduous journey in order to continue practicing Mormonism in freedom. During the reign of Asoka, Buddhists sent out many missionaries to propagate their religious convictions. And during the Roman Empire, Christians refused to give up their faith in Jesus despite brutal persecution.
Why would the different religions of the world do this if they didnโt think their religion was true and that others were (at least partially) wrong? If they believed they were spreading an idea that was essentially the same as all the others, why would they be prepared to exert so much effort, and even endure enormous suffering? Obviously, they did not think their religion was the same as all the others. They did not think all religions were true. They must have thought their religion was substantially different from what already existed, and that it was crucial people knew this. The person who claims โall the religions are the same and true,โ is claiming to know the nature of those religions better than their founders, leaders, and missionaries.
๐๐ค๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฉโ๐จ ๐ง๐๐๐ก ๐๐ง๐ง๐ค๐๐๐ฃ๐๐.
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Many people object to the truth of Christianity by pointing out that oneโs religious beliefs largely depend on the family and society that one is raised in. For example, Dr. Philip Kitcher highlights this issue.
๐ป๐๐ค ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ข๐ก ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐, ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐ ๐ข๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐ก๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ โ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐ก ๐กโ๐ ๐ค๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ก๐ฆ, ๐ ๐๐ฆ โ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ก๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐ ๐ค๐๐กโ ๐กโ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ก? [๐.๐. ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐ ๐ข๐๐๐๐ข๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ฆ ๐ข๐๐๐ โ๐๐] ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐ ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ง๐ ๐กโ๐๐ก ๐๐, ๐๐ฆ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ก ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐โ๐๐๐โ๐๐๐, โ๐ โ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ก๐๐ ๐ก๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐ก ๐๐ข๐๐ก๐ข๐๐, ๐๐๐๐ข๐โ๐ก ๐ข๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐ข๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ , ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐, โ๐ ๐ค๐๐ข๐๐ ๐๐๐ค ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ก ๐ ๐๐ก ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ โฆ
The implication of this reality, at least according to atheists like Kitcher, is that all religions are false. However, does this necessarily follow? The respected Christian philosopher, Dr. Alvin Plantinga, points out that the same societal influences used to dismiss religion can also be used to dismiss atheism. Is atheism false simply because atheists are affected by their society?
๐๐๐ข๐, ๐๐ ๐ผ โ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ข๐โ๐ก ๐ข๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ด๐ข๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐ผ ๐ค๐๐ข๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐ก โ๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ข๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ผ ๐๐ โ๐๐๐; ๐๐ ๐๐๐ข๐๐ก ๐ผ ๐ค๐๐ข๐๐ ๐๐๐ก ๐ ๐ ๐๐ข๐โ ๐๐ โ๐๐ฃ๐ โ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ . ๐ต๐ข๐ก, ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐ ๐'๐ก ๐กโ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ก๐๐ข๐ ๐๐๐ ๐พ๐๐ก๐โ๐๐? ๐ผ๐ โ๐ โ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ข๐โ๐ก ๐ข๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ด๐ข๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, โ๐ ๐ค๐๐ข๐๐ ๐๐๐ก โ๐๐ฃ๐ โ๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐โ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐โ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ข๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ โ๐ ๐๐๐๐ โ๐๐๐ -- ๐๐๐๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ โ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ข๐ก ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.
Although people are influenced by their family and society, this does not determine that any religion is false. Christianity can still be true despite Kitcherโs observation.
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When Charles Darwin published his landmark book The Origin of Species, he recognized that the burden of proof was on him if he was going to explain the evident design of biological life apart from the actions of an intelligent mind. And this he sought to do by providing an explanation for how species originated through the process of natural selection. Darwinโs theory eventually gained great acceptance throughout the scientific community but there was one area that Darwin did not even attempt to provide any kind of plausible explanation for โ the origin of the first replicating cell. This was, and is, a very important piece of the puzzle; for if natural selection is to act, there must first be some type of replicating organism that natural selection can act upon. And since, as Darwin recognized, the burden of proof lies on those who argue against the idea of Intelligent Design, this has prompted a significant amount of research by the scientific community.
An article in Scientific American was published in 2011 and titled โPssst! Don't Tell the Creationists, but Scientists Don't Have a Clue How Life Beganโ. It notes that so far, the scientific community has failed to discover any plausible explanation for lifeโs origin. The situation is so desperate that some scientists are arguing that life was intentionally placed here by aliens from outer space. The author notes,
โฆ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ณ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ค๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ข๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ตโ๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บโ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ค๐ถ๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏโฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ค๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ด๐ฑ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ๐ด๐ฉ๐ช๐ฑ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ญ๐ช๐ง๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ด ๐ข๐จ๐ฐ. ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ด ๐ค๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ช๐ข.
Although the article rejects the idea of Intelligent Design (ID) (and it certainly rejects the idea that the designer could have been God) the fact remains that the burden of proof lies on those who deny ID. And given the scientific community's failure to explain the origin of the first replicating organism, this burden has yet to be met.
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โIf God wants us to believe in him, why doesnโt he just show himself?โ
This question is certainly worth thinking about. Christianity describes God as all-good and all-powerful, and it claims that God wants everyone to believe in him. If thatโs the case, then why doesnโt he just show himself in the sky for everyone to see? Why (partially) hide himself from us?
One possible answer to this is that God partially hides himself so that we can have time to repent of our sins instead of facing immediate judgment. To understand this, consider a teacher with two students in her class โ Bob and Jose. Bob understands English and can hear perfectly. But Jose speaks English as a second language and is partially deaf. The teacher gives her students clear instructions about what they are to do and strictly warns them not to do otherwise. She then goes away and comes back. Upon her return, she finds that both Bob and Jose disobeyed. Upon questioning them, she finds out that Bob simply refused to do what he was told but Jose disobeyed partially because he wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do. In this situation, shouldnโt the teacher treat Jose more leniently than Bob?
This may be part of the reason God partially hides himself from us. We often assume that if God fully revealed himself in all his glory, everyone would obey him. But that isn't necessarily the case. The fact that God partially hides himself could be intentional so that God can (justly) permit us to sin without facing any immediate and eternal judgment. Since his existence and will for our lives are not as evident as they could be, God can (for a time) be lenient toward us. And this gives us the opportunity to repent, turn toward him, and realize how dependent we are on him for doing what is right.
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When someone says that any claim about Jesus, Christianity, or religion in general, is just โyour truth,โ what they are trying to do is turn an objective claim about reality into a subjective claim. This is an indirect way of saying that something is false without actually giving any good reasons. Itโs easy to see the problem with it when itโs used to respond to other objective claims.
Imagine if you told an average American citizen that they were not (contrary to what they believed) the King of England. โOh, thatโs just true for you,โ the person responds. Or suppose you told a powerful slave owner that treating his slaves cruelly was wrong. โThatโs just true for you,โ he insists.
In both cases, the two persons would be implicitly rejecting the objective statements as false without actually giving any good reasons.
If youโre looking for a good response, (politely) ask the person who says Christianity is โjust your truth,โ how they *know* itโs โjustโyour truth.โ Or if you want to use their approach, ask them whether their claim that โChristianity is just true for youโ is something that is โjust true for them?โ
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