Religion & Ethics: Content from Across the ABC     Date/Time 20
Dec 2013 2:21:15am Zac Smith said: "Why are there still
Christians in the world? After all these fantastic arguments to
the contrary, surely the only ones left are either ignorant of
the good news that you don't have to believe anymore (it's all
been refuted!), or have some corrupt interest in the
perpetuation of Christian belief. I'd like to posit the idea
that most Christians today have actually heard all or most of
the so-called knockdown arguments, and still believe the claims
of the bible to be credible without having a corrupt interest in
their perpetuation. We're not dumb people, we not bad people.
It's not that we are somehow convinced by cosmological or
teleological arguments whereas you are not."  Zac Smith, each
argument you make against atheism here could also be made
against every other religion. The question is not "Why are you
Christian and not an atheist?"; it's "Why are you a Christian
and not the member of any of the world's oth