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DOUG
From Christianity Today magazine.

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Answering the Atheists
A Reader's Digest version of why I am a Christian.
Stan Guthrie

Let's face it: Atheism is in. Not since Nietzsche have disbelievers enjoyed such a ready public reception to their godless message—and such near-miraculous royalties. But even that hasn't put them in a good mood. Snaps Christopher Hitchens, who wrote God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (although not, presumably, the pronouncements of atheists), "Many of the teachings of Christianity are, as well as being incredible and mythical, immoral." A feuding Richard Dawkins suggests that believers "just shut up." Apparently, they didn't get the tolerance memo.

Other authors—including Douglas Wilson and Francis Collins—have quite capably refuted the new atheist shtick. But remembering Bertrand Russell's famous essay, "Why I Am Not a Christian," here is a Reader's Digest version of why I am...

DOUG
The author then proceeds to list a pretty good summary of the most popular and in some cases most ridiculous arguments for being a Christian--including the "empty tomb."

See here.

It took me most of my life to question that kind of nonsense that I had just accepted because I'd heard it since I was a "wittle kid" - not from my momma, but the rest of the relatives and all the neighbors. I believe in magic before I believe in christianity. I do believe in god, sort of - as in god IS the universe and that any element in the universe is no more - and no less - god than any other element. I forgot what Doug said that belief is called. I generally say "deist" because at least most people have heard of it, but don't mistake me for a christian.

Barbara Fitzpatrick wrote:I do believe in god, sort of - as in god IS the universe and that any element in the universe is no more - and no less - god than any other element. I forgot what Doug said that belief is called. I generally say "deist" because at least most people have heard of it, but don't mistake me for a christian.

DOUG
That is called pantheism.