Objections against Christianity

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I’d like to know what most common objections against Christianity do you encounter - from your peers, colleagues, co-workers, pupils, teachers, family members, friends… etc

What is it? Are they objections pertaining to relativistic notion of truth (i.e. “What is true for me, is true for me and what is true for you is true for you”)? Do they point to co-existence of allegedly good, loving God and superfluous suffering? Ill-behaving Christians? What do you find the most common or interesting objections?

I’d like to know how you feel about it. I think it’s very interesting.

Thanks for your comments
 
How about this objection: “Christianity” isn’t in the Bible.😃
 
These objections are from my family member:
1- faith is personal, nobody can tell me what, who and how - ie. doubt on authority of the Church
2- there is no life after death, no one can prove it - ie. human senses and reasonings dependency
3- if the Church is so wonderful then why there are bad priests, bad Catholics, bad etc. - ie. Church goers do not practice what they preach
4- “I don’t want to worship a ‘foreign’ god” - Catholic is not “traditional”, “heritage”, “Vaticanized” - ie. xenophobia

These are only surface objections. I believe there are some other deeper reasons that he has not revealed to me yet.

Tak
 
I don’t have any anti-Catholic fundamentalists, JW’s, Mormons, or other non-Catholic religious representatives in my immediate circle, so most of the challenges I’ve heard, explicit or implied, run along the lines of:
  1. All religions are the same. It doesn’t matter which one you belong to, of if you belong to none at all.
  2. Organized religion is divisive and the cause of most (if not all) of the problems in the world.
  3. You’re religious? That’s so good! – for you.
  4. I follow god in my own way – I don’t need a church or rules because I’m spiritual, not religious.
  5. I guess I’m just going to hell. I can deal with that.
  6. My parents shoved religion down my throat (or a nun was mean to me, or a priest didn’t return my call, or I knew this one Catholic who was a hypocrite, etc, etc) so I’m not going to risk my children being religious fanatics.
You get the idea.
:rolleyes:
 
the most common objection I have heard, considering RCIA, family, friends, teens etc. has to do with the nature of God himself:
God as the bloodthirsty tyrant of the OT, demanding child sacrifice from Abraham, destroying alternatively the enemies of Israel, or the Israelites themselves when they are unfaithful, and demanding the life of his own Son in atonement for sins.
 
Hey, folks :rolleyes:

thanks for the great posts! You know, I think one really has know what the other side thinks before you try convincing them in any way.

Peter Kreeft (IMHO one of the greatest philosophers of our times) once said that he had his class divided into two groups - theists and atheists. Now he told the atheists to start convicing the other group that there actually is a God. And also the other way round - the theists should have argued that there surely is none.

Not surprisingly, it turned out, as he said, that the theists used first and foremost the “existence of evil” argument to which the atheists could not much respond. Atheists, on the other hand, were using some week arguments to convince them and which the other group did not consider very appealing.His point was to show that we often argue that we know how things really are, yet we know very little of the other side of the problem…

Thus I like, and moreover, find it of great relevance to know how the cogs work in other people’s heads:)

Before I’ll comment on what you all posted - do you know how to answer these arguments? What do you find the most difficult to answer?

Thank you all 🙂
 
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