ContraRarian

Seversky skewers Christianity

I see they’re back to the Problem of Evil.  Again. 

It’ll all be Adam (and Eve’s) fault for trying a fruit diet.  Again.

There’ll be no satisfactory explanation of why an omniscient being didn’t see it coming a mile off and why an omnipotent being didn’t do anything about it.  Again.

There’ll be no moral justification for punishing not just the original offenders but all their descendants in perpetuity.  Again.

There’ll be no explanation of why God lied to Adam and no discussion of what that implies for everything else God is reported to have said.  Again.

Finally, and much more fundamentally, there will be no discussion of why a necessary being, such as the Christian God must be to be an Uncaused First Cause, would ever create a Universe and populate it with beings with whom he wants to enter into a loving relationship. Again.

A beautiful takedown of Christian theology and apologetics by Seversky @ atbc

“What evangelical apologists are still trying to show…is that their version of the resurrection was the most compatible with accepting all the details of the gospel Easter narratives as true and non-negotiable…[D]efenders of the resurrection assume that their opponents agree with them that all the details are true, that only the punch line is in question. What they somehow do not see is that to argue thus is like arguing that the Emerald City of Oz must actually exist since, otherwise, where would the Yellow Brick Road lead?….We simply have no reason to assume that anything an ancient narrative tells us is true.” The Case Against the Case for Christ, (pp. 209-210) (via DBC)

“I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it” - C. S. Lewis (Mere Christianity 123)