SecularStupidest h/t:

• “I shall always be convinced that a watch proves a watch-maker, and that a universe proves God.”

~ Voltaire

Excerpt from an old debate:

…Instead of thinking of Christianity as a collection of theological bits and pieces to be believed or debated, we should approach our faith as a conceptual system, as a total world-and-life view.  Once people understand that both Christianity and its adversaries in the world of ideas are worldviews, they will be in a better position to judge the relative merits of the total Christian system.  William Abraham has written:

“Religious belief should be assessed as a rounded whole rather than taken in stark isolation, Christianity, for example, like other world faiths, is a complex, large-scale system of belief which must be seen as a whole before it is assessed.  To break it up into disconnected parts is to mutilate and distort its true character.  We can, of course, distinguish certain elements in the Christian faith, but we must still stand back and see it as a complex interaction of these elements.  We need to see it as a metaphysical system, as a worldview, that is total in its scope and range” (An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion, p. 104).

The case for or against Christian theism should be made and evaluated in terms of total systems.   Christianity is not simply a religion that tells human beings how they may be forgiven, however important this information is.  Christianity is also a total world-and-life view.  Our faith has important things to say about the whole of human life.  Once Christians understand in a systematic way how the options to Christianity are also worldviews, they will be in a better position to justify their choice of Christianity rationally.  The reason many people reject our faith is not due to their problems with one or two isolated issues; it is the result of their anti-Christian conceptual scheme, which leads them to reject information and arguments that for believers provide support for the Christian worldview…

Consider their beliefs in light of these: