Arguments For and Against Christianity
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Authorities Assessed
Old Testament
New Testament
Apostolic Traditions
Church Fathers
Emperors
General Church Councils
Popes
Conclusions
Early Christian History
What Jesus Believed
Who Founded Christianity?
Creation of Doctrine
Origin of Ideas & Practices
The Concept of Orthodoxy
Origin of the Priesthood
Maintaining Deceptions
Suppress Facts
Selecting Sources
Fabricating Records
Retrospective Prophesy
Ambiguous Authorities
Ignore Injunctions
Invent, Amend and Discard
Manipulate Language
Case Studies
Re-branding a Sky-God
Making One God out of Many
How Mary keeps her Virginity
Fabricating the Nativity Story
Managing Inconvenient Texts
Christianity & Science
Traditional Battlegrounds
Modern Battlegrounds
Rational Explanations
Religion in General
Christianity in Particular
Divine Human Beings
Ease of Creating Religions
Arguments for and Against
Popular Arguments
Philosophical Arguments
Moral Arguments
Supernatural Arguments
Miracles
Revelation
Faith
Practical Arguments
Record of Christianity
Social Issues
Slavery
Racism
Capital Punishment
Penal Reform
Physical Abuse
Treatment of Women
Contraception
Abortion
Divorce
Family Values
Children
Romanies
The Physically Ill
The Mentally Ill
The Poor
Animals
Ecology
Persecution
Persecutions of Christians
Persecutions by Christians
"Heathens"
Witches
Heretics
Schismatics
Cathars
Jews
Inquisition Victims
Philosophers
Freethinkers
Blasphemers
Apostates
Humanists
Pantheists
Unitarians
Deists
Atheists
Church & State
Symbiosis
Meddling in Governance
Interference in Politics
Abuse of Power
Church Law and Justice
Exemption from the Law
Unofficial Exemption
Financial Privileges
Control Over Education
Human Rights
Freedom of Belief
Religious Toleration
Freedom of Expression
Freedom of Enjoyment
Attitudes to Sex
Celibacy
Sex Within Marriage
Sex Outside Marriage
Incest
Rape
Homosexuality
Transvestism
Prostitution
Pederasty
Bestiality
Sadomasochism
Necrophilia
Consequences
Science & Medicine
Ancient Times
Dark and Middle Ages
Sixteenth Century
Seventeenth Century
Eighteenth Century
Nineteenth Century
20th and 21st Centuries
Medical Records Compared
Violence & Warfare
Crusades
God's Wars
Churches' Wars
Christian Atrocities
Cultural Vandalism
The Classical World
Europe
The Wider Modern World
Possible Explanations
Summing up
Marketing Religion
Marketing Christianity
Continuing Damage
Religious Discrimination
Christian Discrimination
Moral Dangers
Abuse of Power
A Final Summing Up
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prorsus credibile est, quia ineptum est
(it is by all means to be believed, because it is absurd)
Tertullian, De carne Christi
(often cited as
Credo quia absurdum
"I believe because it is absurd." )
Popular Arguments
The
Point of Existence
Argument
The
Better than Animals
Argument
The
Human Uniqueness
Argument
The
Numbers
Argument
The
Concept of God
Argument
Pascal's Wager
The
Steadfastness
Argument
The
Superhuman Sacrifice
Argument
The
Success
Argument
The
Wonderful World
Argument
The
Best of all Possible Worlds
Argument
The
Need for Creation
Argument
The
Inspiration
Argument
The
No Disproof
Argument
Philosophical Proofs of the Existence of God & problems associated with God
Historical Proofs of the Existence of God
The Ontological Argument
The Cosmological (or Causal) Argument
The Argument from Desig
Problems Associated with the Nature of God
The Problem of Evil
The Paradox of Omnipotence
The Paradox of Omniscience
A Paradox of Justice and Mercy
Moral Arguments
Morality - Theory and Practice
Christian Morality
Atheistic Morality
The Moral Record of Christians and Freethinkers Compared
Arguments From Miracles, Revelation and Faith
Miracles
Stigmata
Relics
Saints and their Miracles
Healers and other Miracle Workers
Petitionary Prayers Answered
Visionaries
The Mystery of the Vanishing Proofs
Seeds of Doubt
New Explanations
Fraud
Revelation
Expectations Fulfilled
Contradictions
Suspicious Mistakes
Errors
Insubstantial Revelation
Subsequent Admissions
Faith
Practical Arguments
The tenets, doctrines and practices of the religion should be distinctive and original.
The tenets, doctrines and practices of the religion should be clear and unambiguous.
Doctrines should be free from error.
The religion should be internally consistent.
Doctrines should not be contradictory or lead to absurd or irrational conclusions, nor depend upon irrational arguments.
The religion should be unchanging and not culturally determined.
Access to the religion should be equally available to all people.
The religion should be fair. It should not favour any one group of people or put another at a disadvantage.
Adherents should be united in their divinely inspired belief. In other words they should all believe the same things.
The one true religion might be expected to be noticeably superior to other, false, religions.
It should be possible to distinguish the one true religion from other belief systems.
The religion should be a force for good in the world.
The religion should not be intellectually dishonest.
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