If Christianity is man made, why does everything about it go against man’s desires? Does Christianity go against man’s desires? If so, is that evidence for Christianity? I answer this question, discussing the history of Christianity, the cognitive science of religion, Buddhism, Jainism, Islam, and more.
The whole “atheists can’t answer this question” and “atheists can’t explain this” thing is really getting old.
For every apologist that goes:
There is another that says:
Make up your minds, folks.
That’s why the belief of the devil is so convenient for a lot of Christians.
Everything deemed good relative to their current social barometer is obviously from God, and everything they think is bad is from Satan.
And if you point out that the concept of Satan effectively arose from a lazy editor rewriting a polytheistic tale under monotheistic reform and that a deity of light having an adversary makes no sense as light’s anti-particle is just itself, you get the quintessentially Christian “well I don’t know about that” or “I’ll have to ask my pastor about that.”
To which the best you can do is offer up Upton Sinclair’s famous quote to fall on deaf ears: “Do not expect a man to understand a thing that his paycheck depends on him not understanding.”