This post is part of the Ideological Turing Test Challenge. Go to the tab above for an overview and remind yourself of the voting and commenting guidelines. What is your best reason for being a Christian? Christianity, and Catholicism in particular, is the most rational belief system. I make the argument in four steps: Christianity is 1) possible, 2) probable, 3) historical, and 4) good. 1) Theism provides a viable explanation for everything. Atheist philosopher Nick Bostrom, in his “computer... Read more

This post is part of the Ideological Turing Test Challenge. Go to the tab above for an overview and remind yourself of the voting and commenting guidelines. What is your best reason for being a Christian? First, go read my answer to the third question, below. Okay, that’s probably the single biggest reason why I’m a Christian, but I don’t expect that it will be the most convincing for everyone. For starters, some of you are probably less bloodthirsty or... Read more

This post is part of the Ideological Turing Test Challenge. Go to the tab above for an overview and remind yourself of the voting and commenting guidelines. What is your best reason for being a Christian? Christian doctrine has a lot of parts, so one really needs a sustained argument in several steps even to give the outline. However, I’ll say this: my best reason for being a Christian is the sublime perfection of the ethics of the Gospels. It’s... Read more

This post is part of the Ideological Turing Test Challenge. Go to the tab above for an overview and remind yourself of the voting and commenting guidelines. What is your best reason for being a Christian? I am a Christian because I believe that God exists – in the complexity of nature, in the beauty of art, and in the human capacity for empathy and compassion. Some people have told me that this belief is irrational. I am not so... Read more

This post is part of the Ideological Turing Test Challenge. Go to the tab above for an overview and remind yourself of the voting and commenting guidelines. What is your best reason for being a Christian? Leave it to an atheist to choose a tough question. 🙂 There are so many answers I could give here: There’s the grace and mystery and beauty of the Church, and the way it courageously stands against the constantly changing vanities of the world.... Read more

This post is part of the Ideological Turing Test Challenge. Go to the tab above for an overview and remind yourself of the voting and commenting guidelines. What is your best reason for being a Christian? Most kids I know (me included) experiences a certainty at some point in childhood that we were somehow extraordinary and eldritch. It could be an expectation that our ‘real’ parents would one day show up or a fixed attention on the mail around our... Read more

This post is part of the Ideological Turing Test Challenge. Go to the tab above for an overview and remind yourself of the voting and commenting guidelines. What is your best reason for being a Christian? I know that Jesus Christ is my Savior. When you open your heart to Jesus and know that He is your Savior, everything else falls into place. There is no greater peace, no deeper calm, no lasting satisfaction like Salvation. What evidence or experience... Read more

This post is part of the Ideological Turing Test Challenge. Go to the tab above for an overview and remind yourself of the voting and commenting guidelines. What is your best reason for being a Christian? This is really a two-part question, regarding belief in God and belief in Christianity; for the sake of space, I’ll address God here and Christianity in question 3. Because before you can even consider Christianity, you must grapple with the question of the existence... Read more