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Exposing myths about Christianity: a guide to answering 145 viral lies and legends
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IVP Books
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[2012]
Language
English
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9780830834662
9780830866878
9780830866878
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Christianity Is Dying Out --
1 Christianity is uncool and old-fashioned 33 --
2 Christianity is outdated and dying out 34 --
3 Christianity is boring 39 --
4 Christianity is a fairy tale 41 --
5 Christianity is confusing 42 --
6 Christianity is a superstition 43 --
7 Christianity is a myth 44 --
8 Christianity is magic 45 --
9 Christianity is antiscientific 46 --
Christianity Is Destructive --
10 Hitler was a Christian 47 --
11 Inquisition executed millions of heretics and witches 49 --
12 Christians are intolerant fanatics 52 --
13 Religion causes more war and suffering than atheism does 55 --
14 Corrupt clergy show that Christians are hypocrites who do more harm than good 58 --
15 Christianity supported black slavery 60 --
16 Christianity consists of "thou shalt nots." 65 --
17 Christianity stunts self-development and personal happiness 66 --
18 Christianity is insensitive to other beliefs 71 --
19 Christianity is mainly about sin 71 --
20 Christianity impedes progress 74 --
21 Christianity supports war and the death penalty 77 --
22 Christianity favors the rich 79 --
23 Christianity is anti-environment 80 --
24 Christianity is anti-sex 83 --
25 Christianity is anti-choice 85 --
26 Christianity is sexist 87 --
27 Christianity is homophobic 91 --
28 Christianity is antisemitic 94 --
29 Christianity is racist 101 --
30 Christianity is antidemocratic 103 --
31 Christianity is a religion of reward and punishment 104 --
32 Christians believe in Christ because they are afraid of death 104 --
33 Christians need a crutch 105 --
34 Christianity is immoral 107 --
35 Christianity warps children 112 --
36 Christian community has repented for its sins against others 114 --
37 Kings, popes and other leaders used Christianity to justify their power 115 --
38 Christianity is Eurocentric and colonialist 120 --
39 Crusades were imperialist aggression 121 --
40 Christian missionaries degraded indigenous cultures 123 --
41 Great cathedrals were built with slave labor 125 --
42 Christians burned down the Great Library at Alexandria 126 --
43 Christianity has nothing to do with law and justice 127 --
Christianity Is Stupid --
44 Bright people don't believe in God 131 --
45 Scientific evidence has shown that there is no God 132 --
46 Christians persecuted Galileo for saying Earth revolves around the sun 133 --
47 Christianity differs from atheism in being faith-based 137 --
48 Most leading atheists are scientists 142 --
49 Medieval Christians believed Earth was flat 142 --
50 Christianity represses free thought 144 --
51 Christianity is irrational and unreasonable 145 --
52 Belief in Christianity is incompatible with science 146 --
53 Science did not originate in Christianity 149 --
54 Evidence of evolution points away from Christianity 153 --
55 Christians are creationists who deny evolution 163 --
56 Christians object to evolution on the basis of a literal reading of the Bible 165 --
57 Legal system and the media understand the relationship of Christianity to evolution 167 --
58 There is no evidence for theistic evolution 168 --
59 Science is about facts, religion about values 170 --
60 There is no evidence in nature for intelligent purpose in the cosmos 171 --
61 There is so much Christian art because the church paid for it 178 --
62 Renaissance prevented Christianity from stamping out the classics 182 --
Jesus and the Bible Have Been Shown to Be False --
63 Original Bible exists 183 --
64 Christians worship the Bible 187 --
65 Christians take the Bible literally 189 --
66 Text of the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) is uncertain 190 --
67 New Testament can be understood without the Old Testament 191 --
68 Apocrypha are not part of the Bible 194 --
69 Modern scholarship debunks the Bible 196 --
70 Jesus is (fill in the blank) 197 --
71 Jesus of history is different from the Christ of faith 199 --
72 Apostle Saint Paul invented Christianity 206 --
73 Earliest followers of Jesus did not believe him to be divine 207 --
74 Early Christians suppressed the true religion of Jesus, and the truth about Christianity is found in secret codes and documents 208 --
75 Gnostics are Christians 211 --
76 Little or nothing is known about Jesus 213 --
77 Jesus was illiterate 217 --
78 New Testament was composed long after the death of Jesus 217 --
79 Gospels contradict one another 218 --
80 Christianity is a remodeled pagan mystery cult 220 --
81 Christmas is the main Christian holiday 221 --
82 Christians believe that the book of Revelation predicts the future 221 --
83 Canon of the Bible preceded the creeds 226 --
Christian Beliefs Have Been Shown to Be Wrong --
84 Church changed the Bible to fit its doctrines 229 --
85 Creeds are irrelevant to modern Christianity 230 --
86 Christians believe that God is found only in church 236 --
87 Christians believe in three gods 237 --
88 Christians are dualists 239 --
89 Christians believe that Jesus is a son of God just as we are all sons and daughters of God 239 --
90 Christian God killed his own son 241 --
91 Christianity is about dogma 242 --
92 Christianity is about rules and rituals 243 --
93 Christianity is based on feelings 244 --
94 Fundamentalism is ancient Christian teaching 248 --
95 Christians believe in the immortality of the soul 249 --
96 Evil doesn't exist, and the existence of evil disproves Christianity 250 --
97 Christians believe in evil 251 --
98 Christians believe that everything that happens is God's will 254 --
99 Christians believe in hell 255 --
100 Christians believe in the Devil 258 --
101 Christians believe in original sin 260 --
102 Christians believe in predestination 263 --
103 Diversity and number of denominations disprove Christianity 265 --
104 Eastern Orthodox Christians are a fringe group 266 --
105 Catholics are not Christians 268 --
106 Protestants are heretics 271 --
107 Orthodox and Catholics worship idols 272 --
108 Orthodox and Catholics worship Mary 274 --
109 Orthodox and Catholics belittle the Bible 276 --
110 Catholic church discourages reading the Bible 277 --
111 Catholic church is monolithic 278 --
112 Purgation is not an early Christian idea 282 --
113 Catholics invented the sign of the cross 285 --
114 Protestants had no reason to divide the church 285 --
115 Protestantism is puritanical 288 --
116 Rome's claim to be central to Christianity is a power play 289 --
117 Pentecostals, evangelicals, fundamentalists and creationists are ah the same 291 --
118 Christianity has no spiritual tradition as Eastern religions do 294 --
119 Christians believe that they eat the body of Jesus 296 --
120 Christians believe that Jesus created the world 298 --
121 Christianity adopted pagan practices 298 --
Miracles Are Impossible --
122 Miracles are explained away by science 301 --
123 Christianity is false because miracles can't occur 304 --
124 Resurrection of Jesus has been disproved 307 --
125 Resurrection of Jesus was a "resurrection experience" rather than a physical resurrection 309 --
Worldviews Can't Be Evaluated --
126 Few people believe in God anymore 311 --
127 God is the product of structural and chemical arrangements in the brain 314 --
128 If there is a God, he has a lot of explaining to do about suffering 315 --
129 Atheists oppose Christianity mainly on intellectual grounds 318 --
130 Christ couldn't have had any impact, since things haven't got better since his time 320 --
131 "I don't know" is the most defensible position 321 --
132 Christians believe that Christianity is one of a number of equally valid paths to God 321 --
133 What we believe about Jesus and God affects who Jesus and God are 323 --
134 Extraterrestrials are more probable than angels 324 --
What's New Is True --
135 Latest religious theories are the best 326 --
136 New Age and Christianity are compatible 327 --
137 Reincarnation is compatible with Christianity 327 --
138 Christianity leads to wealth 328 --
139 Da Vinci Code is fact-based fiction 328 --
140 Real founder of Christianity was Constantine the Great 329 --
141 Christians believe in the Holy Grail 331 --
142 Archeologists found the family tomb of Jesus 332 --
143 Religion needs to be removed from the public square 332 --
144 Christianity is different from what it is 333 --
145 Nothing is true 335.
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Subjects
Subjects
Apologetics
Apologetics -- Miscellanea
Christianity
Christianity -- Controversial literature -- Miscellanea
Christian legends
Christian legends -- Miscellanea
Common fallacies
Common fallacies -- Miscellanea
Controversial literature
Electronic books
Religious aspects
Superstition
Superstition -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Miscellanea
Theology, Doctrinal
Theology, Doctrinal -- Miscellanea
Trivia and miscellanea
Apologetics -- Miscellanea
Christianity
Christianity -- Controversial literature -- Miscellanea
Christian legends
Christian legends -- Miscellanea
Common fallacies
Common fallacies -- Miscellanea
Controversial literature
Electronic books
Religious aspects
Superstition
Superstition -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Miscellanea
Theology, Doctrinal
Theology, Doctrinal -- Miscellanea
Trivia and miscellanea
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