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Covering some lazy myths …

Posted by Mathew | 26 March 08

I’ve often come across people who deny or push aside Christianity simply because they hold to what I call ‘lazy myths’. ‘Chrisitianity can’t be true, because …’ is the typical indicator that a lazy myth is about to surface.

I’m defining a lazy myth as: something someone accepts as true without the application of logic. That is, they’ve clung to a hazy objection of some sort, without fully investigating the ‘logic’ behind that objection.

(Of course, now the danger therein, of course, is that I’m sure my head has a good number of lazy myths tucked away that every now and then poke their little heads up to haunt me. I would hope I have the grace enough to deal with them as they are made known to me.)

Over several posts, I plan on tackling some of the more common lazy myths. If you have others that I have not listed and that you would like me to likewise tackle, let me know and I’ll see how I go. There is a good possibility of some overlap as well, but we’ll try not to let that get in the way.

Here’s a short list of lazy myths that I prepared earlier:

  • Christianity borrowed from pagan religions - there’s nothing orginal in Christianity
  • The Bible is nothing more than a big game of Chinese Whispers
  • The Bible contains far too many contradictions to be taken seriously
  • Evolution is fact, which makes Christianity false
  • Books that contradicted doctrines of today’s Bible were purposely left out (ie. Gospel of Thomas, etc.)
  • Easter and Christmas are purely a pagan festivals that Christianity ripped off
  • All religions lead to the same god
  • All religions are compatible with one another
  • Christianity is based purely on blind faith

    • I’ll most likely not handle these in order and may not even cover all of them; and I may very well add others as they come to mind.

    Okay … just so you know, I’m not being non-committal … just flexible :P

    Stay tuned.

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