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- So many religions claim to be the only way. How could we possibly know who is right?
People object to God’s existence because of the cacophony of voices claiming to speak for Him. This is usually taken to mean that either no one is right about God, or everyone is right about God. The negative version dismisses all claimants to the title of True Religion. The very fact that they disobey the… Read more: So many religions claim to be the only way. How could we possibly know who is right? - “Science has disproved the claims of religion, and shown we don’t need a God to explain the world”
Many people have heard second-hand that religion and science are enemies. Popular media, a few ‘scientific experts’, and a culture of deep faith in science and deep skepticism in religion feed these kinds of baseless ideas. Our first response to these ideas is to point out that ‘science’ is not some kind of monolithic system… Read more: “Science has disproved the claims of religion, and shown we don’t need a God to explain the world” - “Religion is narrow and confining and turns people into hypocrites and tyrants!”
I suppose many objections to Christianity and the existence of God are more fear-of-what-it-might-be, rather than fear-of-what-it-is. One of those is the common objection that religion becomes a kind of straightjacket, confining and restricting you. This is particularly so because today many believe that truth is mostly a personal belief. Truth is the world as… Read more: “Religion is narrow and confining and turns people into hypocrites and tyrants!” - “So Much Injustice, Violence and Terrorism Has Been Done in the Name of Religion”
Some object to God based on the bad fruit that comes out of organised religion, particularly violence, religious wars, and persecution of other groups. There’s been no shortage of violence performed in the name of God: religious purges, the pogroms, the Crusades, the Inquisition, Islamic terrorism, the wars between Islam and Christianity, wars between Sunni… Read more: “So Much Injustice, Violence and Terrorism Has Been Done in the Name of Religion”
