I Have No Fear of God's Judgment for Debunking Christianity.

I just received an email from a minister-in-training who said this:

In the end, you must understand that if you are wrong, you may want to think about what kind of God you are going to face. I do not buy into the fact that we are just matter floating around by chance with electrical impluses controlling all of our actions. I do not think you do either deep down, otherwise you would not even be writing this blog. You would not feel the desire to prove you are right unless something inside of you was scared in realizing the enormity of the fallout this sort of worldview decision causes. You need others to come along with you in your break away; the same thing you make fun of Christians for doing in evangelism. You are afraid to be alone. Humans were not created by God to be alone. This is what fuels your meaningless movement; the fear of being separated from God alone or from living this life alone as an outcast. In the end, if you are right, all is meaningless. No matter how you strive for meaning, it does not matter---your worldview will not allow man to have a spirit or any eternal destiny. You may live under the motto that you only live once, but I say to you that every man dies forever if he is not reconciled to God. That is the reason death feels like such a cheat to humans, because it is; when you look at the biblical account, we were never supposed to die. We were created finite, but immortal. The Fall changed things, and we know in our being that death is an enemy and is not a natural part of living.

I think the first sentence above should be considered seriously by us all...all of us! I must. My conclusion is that the claims of Christianity are so miserably weak that I have no fear in debunking it...none. That's a pretty powerful statement don't you think? That's what I've concluded. It tells you what I think about the strength of the case for Christianity; that it has no strength at all to me. That's what I'm saying. That's what all of us here at DC think. It's not just that we think it's probably untrue. We're willing to stake our future on what we conclude. We're willing to risk God's judgment when we die on what we think. Is this not like the witness of the Christians who eagerly met martyrdom for Jesus? They were deluded, unlike us. We can argue why we're not deluded on so many different levels it may surprize you. Surely this does not prove our case, just as those early Christian martyrs don't prove their case. But we stand as former believers who say with this much force that Christianity is a delusion.

Then the writer went on to compare Christianity to atheism as if those are the only two alternatives. There is liberal Christianity, existential Christianity, Deism, Pantheism, panentheism, secular Christianity, Liberation Theology, agnosticism, and so forth, to compare Christianity to. I have repeatedly said I might be able to accept a God, a deistic god, a philosopher's god, but since that kind of god is no different than none at all, I choose atheism. The alternatives are not between accepting evangelical Christianity and atheism. There are a whole host of intermediary positions to hold to.