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Originally Posted by finknik
In response to the argument that "yes, the disciples were willing to die for their beliefs, but so are Muslims and Mormans and followers of Jim Jones and David Koresh".
Put it this way; people will die for their religious beliefs if they sincerely believe them to be true, but people WON'T die for their religious beliefs if they know their beliefs are false.
Aah, so people will die if they sincerely believe it is true. Whether its true or not isn't the issue... what's important is if they believe its true. We're all in agreement.
No one is denying that some Christians died for their beliefs. Nor is anyone denying that people of other religions died for their beliefs.
From this we can conclude that "the willingness of people to die for a belief system has NO bearing on the truth of that system."
So the fact that people died for Christian beliefs is meaningless in assessing the truth of Christianity. So let's move on.
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The Case for Christ is a very thought provoking book. If you are an Atheist and have not read it, please do. You have nothing to lose, and I would really like to hear what your contradictions are to the statements that Strobel makes.
Its not a thought provoking book and objections to it have been done on this forum before. There's plenty of logical flaws in the book and misinformation.