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Is Christianity a Just-So Story?

If atheism is true, why did so many ancient cultures hold to some form of theism? Why did none of them get it right? Why did our ancestors adopt theism, rather than atheism? Atheists sometimes feel compelled to answer these questions. The most common answer goes something like this: “Ancient people were superstitious and ignorant

Christianity Is Not a Greek Philosophy

A friend is currently reading Peter Watson’s “Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud”, a book which promises to make you erudite about all of human religion, philosophy, and various “-isms”. The book plays to people’s vanities.  When humanity as a whole has arrived at no consensus about the validity of