No wonder you are all messed up. You read blasphemous stuff. Religion is a tradition. Why do intelligent people submit their kids to being taught Christianity? People want nothing but the best for their kids. Christianity simply beats all the alternatives.
How many universities in this country were started by Christians?
How many universities in this country were started by atheists?
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Mickey, you make an excellent point about some of our major universities been started by Christians. The same is true with our scientific fields. Without Christianity, we would still be living in the dark ages!
And I’d argue Christianity goes way beyond “beats the alternatives.” It’s because Christianity was founded on reality and historical facts. It’s more than a belief system. This is why so many people (meaning atheist and their like) spend so much time trying to disprove the Bible.
Even Paul understood that our faith is more than a belief system, when he said, if Christ did not die and was raised from the dead, your faith is worthless. I’m paraphrasing here a little. Again, Christianity is based on the historical fact there is a Creator who came down to earth as Jesus, who died and was raised from the dead. If this didn’t happen, our faith is meaningless and Christianity is no different than some mystic voodoo religion.
Besides Judaism, Muslims and Christianity, all the other relgions are not based on reality. They are based on some mystic belief system...some call it “new age” thinking. This is where eastern religions like Hindu, Buddha, etc, come from. You could probably call them more philosophies then religion.
That’s why it made no sense when redietz made the comment about intelligent people “de-committing” from religion (I’m assuming he means Christianity) in light of “overwhelming evidence”. I have no idea what he means by this, since the “overwhelming evidence” has shown the historical accuracy of the Bible, from the creation account, to Christ time on earth and his resurrection.
Why do all dating systems go back to Christ’s time on earth? Because when God in person came to earth and defeated death, it had a pretty big impact on the world! To where over 2000 years later, the whole world (regardless of someone’s beliefs) still knowledges his existence and importance with our calendars!
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