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Harris addresses his arguments to members of the conservative Christian Right in America. In answer to their appeal to the Bible on questions of morality, he points to selected items from the Old Testament Mosaic law , (death for adultery, homosexuality, disobedience to parents etc.), and contrasts this with, for example, the complete non ...
However, a counter argument by Stephen Maitzen suggests that the ethical inconsistency in the bible that is not followed by most Christians or Jews today, such as the execution of homosexuals, blasphemers, disobedient children, or the punishment for mixing linen and cloth, ultimately undermines the skeptical theism argument. [115]
This anecdote has now become one of the many ways the Trump campaign has attempted to brand Harris as a threat to Christianity in America. I find this notion of Christians in the U.S. being an ...
Critical reviews from Christians have included those by R. Albert Mohler, Jr. for The Christian Post, [15] and Matthew Simpson for Christianity Today. [16] Madeleine Bunting, writing in The Guardian, quotes Harris as saying "some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them." Bunting comments, "[t ...
To Hitchens, the best argument for the "highly questionable existence of Jesus", however, is biblical inconsistency, explaining the "very attempts to bend and stretch the story may be inverse proof that someone of later significance was indeed born". [27]
Another argument is that the resurrection of Jesus occurred and was an act of God, hence God must exist. Some versions of this argument have been presented, such as N. T. Wright's argument from the nature of the claim of resurrection to its occurrence and the "minimal facts argument", defended by scholars such as Gary Habermas and Mike Licona, which defend that God raising Jesus from the dead ...
Collins raises arguments for the existence of God, drawing from science and philosophy. He cites many famous thinkers, most prevalently C. S. Lewis, as well as Augustine of Hippo, Stephen Hawking, Charles Darwin, Theodosius Dobzhansky and others. The book was selected for the 2007 Christianity Today Book Awards. [4]
Christianity has been criticized for portraying women as sinful, untrustworthy, deceitful and desiring to seduce and incite men into sexual sin. [178] Katharine M. Rogers argues that Christianity is misogynistic and that the "dread of female seduction" can be found in St. Paul's epistles. [179] K. K.