First off the narrator is going to set up a “straw man” by comparing Christianity to Mormonism and Islam. Talk about comparing apples to oranges and bananas!
Since you don’t believe the Joseph Smith story, why would you believe the St. John story?
Non sequitur.
Once again, the narrator is saying that the story of Mohammed is unbelievable. Since the Mohammed story is unbelievable, then the St. Matthew story is unbelievable.
Non sequitur.
The first problem is that “the Christian Fairy Tale” (the narrator’s words, not mine) came first. These other religions only “aped” our story and added fantastical elements to them to mesmerize their potential converts. Comparing Mohammed and Smith to St. Mark is once again and apples/oranges comparison.
The miracles have evidence in that we know that fragments from the Gospels all predate AD 80. This means that these were written by the real eye witnesses to these miracles, namely the Apostles and their secretaries (Sts. Luke and Mark.) The problem is that the narrator doesn’t believe in miracles, yet since he hasn’t studied all the data, he is the one being unscientific.
Re: the Resurrection… if He was killed and didn’t Resurrect, all the Romans and Jews would have had to do is to produce the body. Guess what, no one has yet produced the body. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher (and the Garden Tomb for you Protestants) is empty,
Christus Resurrexit! We know that Christ existed, even if the Gospels didn’t exist, Josephus and Pliny the Younger wrote about Him and His “sect.”
He also tries to “tell the truth by counting the noses.” Saying that since 4 Billion people do not claim to be Christian it must be false. I’m sure I don’t even have to take the time to refute that one, do I?
“Christians are delusional.” Just because he says it doesn’t make it so. But if it did… “I am a billionaire!” Just keep repeating it…
He goes to spout that prayer is not scientific. Duhhhhh, God isn’t bound by our physical laws. I actually think He ruins our experiments, it’s called the placebo effect.
Christianity devalues human life?
What? He obviously hasn’t read
Humane Vitaeor
Evangelium Vitae. Once again, who has killed the most people? The Anti-Christian governments of the XX Century did.
Every scientific study shows that prayer is equivocal because God heals whom He wishes. Holy Writ says that you shall not put God to the test.
Why would a rational human being believe in heaven?
For the same reason that a rational physicist believes in String Theory, multiple universes, 10 Dimensions, etc…
Why would you believe in God when there is no evidence for Him?
Is there evidence that He isn’t? It seems arrogant to say that there isn’t a God when we don’t even know the composition of the Earth, much less the Solar System or the Galaxy. Since we don’t know what’s out there how can we say that God isn’t out there? In other words, to say that there is no God, that is we’d have to know everything about all of reality, we’d have to be God ourselves! That violates the law of non-contradiction.
I would also like you to visit Mark Shea’s blog, he regularly refutes atheists.
markshea.blogspot.com/
Peace.