#617 | Greg, in reference to Christianity and its demands, says, “Who’d invent this?” Is Greg serious? Has he forgotten the eternal life and treasure in Heaven that, if true, far exceed earthly pleasures in the minds of the self-interested? Why not reflect your religion honestly?
#597 | Greg makes the unsubstantiated claim that the incoherency of disbelief is leading to many coming to Jesus while I might claim the inverse. Is there not clear evidence that would clear this up? Are such claims on either side of any real value? How about anecdotes?
#563 | If Stephen Hawkins had been a Christian, his unusually long survival from ALS would have been categorized as evidence of a miracle by most Christians. So also had he had died early as an atheist. What is the standard of evidence behind these sorts of claims?
#458 | Is it God or the Devil who creates this quite apparent inverse correlation between the immensity of a miracle claim and our ability to properly vet that claim? Why this insulating distance from science for the most spectacular miracle claims, removing falsifiability?
#258 | When Christians 1) tell a 7-year-old, who has for months tearfully begged Jesus to forgive him, that Jesus has unquestionably redeemed him, then 2) tell that same individual decades later that he was never redeemed, when did they actually tell the truth?
#147 | Few disagree that telling others what they believe is raw arrogance and close-mindedness. Greg: “Everyone believes there is evil in the world!” < Your emotional abhorrence for X does not make X objectively evil. You need an actual argument, an argument I’ve yet to see.
#070 | It appears that the God who is allegedly literally in the room with us cannot even move the curtains without having the window open so as to leave open the possibility that it was actually the wind. Why do miracle claims cluster around plausible naturalistic explanations?
#068 | Is there an expiration date for the 2 Peter 2:4 notion that the non-appearance of Jesus would produce scoffers, their existence only reinforcing the certainty Jesus will return? Or was this passage perhaps a clever psychological device to trap believers into prolonged irrational belief?
#059 | Greg claims that our spiritual intuition is no more faulty than our physical senses. How was this conclusion ascertained? Does not the fact that “moral” intuitions and intuitions about various Gods greatly differ across cultures falsify Greg’s claim?
#055 | In Matt 6:26-30 Jesus says God’s eye is on even the sparrow and the lilies, so we should not worry about being clothed and fed. Yet Christians the world over die in hunger and nakedness. What is the actual promise, if any, being made? If no promise, what is the point?
#044 | If I claimed 1) I‘d give $100 to all who wrote me a letter, 2) that even those who have never heard of me could see my offer & address in nature, then received letters from people only in areas where my offer was preached, would that be evidence against my 2nd claim?
#038 | It appears that most if not all biblical promises are shielded from being (dis)confirmed by science. One possible exception is the biblical claim unbelievers suppress the truth in unrighteousness. Or is this also untestable even given modern psychological tools?
#037 | How should we go about designing an experiment to confirm that those who have not heard the Gospel are suppressing the truth in unrighteousness? Or is this an untestable phenomenon, even with modern tools of psychology and brain science? If so, what are the reasons?
#033 | STR staff keep oddly asserting that those who claim not to believe in morality will eventually slip up, revealing that they actually do. Is this assertion any less silly than the claim all husbands are cheaters and will eventually cheat after observing cheating husbands?
#030 | STR staff insist that we all have an ideology. Yet I myself was between belief and disbelief in a God for over two years, rationally adjusting my probabilities as I researched. I have many other friends between Christianity and Islam. Why does STR make this false claim?
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