But I simply see no reason to believe that.
No, you wouldn't. That's the purpose of the Jesus-Mind-Virus. It shuts off your critical thinking skills. And before you say "Nyah uh, No it doesn't." STOP. Think about they guy who thinks he's sober enough to drive as he falls forward on his face. You are that guy. (((Christians))) lack self-awareness.
(((Christianity))) is like the that gets into a grasshopper's brain and makes it jump in the water so the parasite can reproduce.
You aren't a free agent in your Jew-God's eyes. You are his property. Your Jew-God doesn't care about your self interest. The Jew-God only cares about his own self-interest.
Dude, I know about all that. I was not raised a Christian, and used to completely agree with you roughly ten years ago. If Christianity shuts off my critical thinking skills, as you say, then why am I in full possession of my critical thinking faculty ?
then why am I in full possession of my critical thinking faculty ?
You aren't. That's the paradox. A person who isn't self-aware can't tell if he is self-aware or not.
(((Christianity))) has striped this faculty from you. You are trying to run a diagnostic program, but the diagnostic program is faulty.
I think a better explanation for the observed phenomena is that your worldview cannot handle the possibility that a truly free agent can reasonably arrive at Christianity through rational, reasonable observation, and thereby making sense out of the events of this life.
Because if a person could freely arrive at Christianity as a reasonable explanation for the universe, then you may actually be held accountable for your refusal.
It is a default presuppositional position that you hold. Your worldview depends upon it.
I am perfectly willing to concede the possibility that I may be mistaken in my position. But it’d take a lot of explaining of many intimate details of my personal life, both before and after becoming Christian, because in my experience it was my Rational Empiricism which led me to Orthodoxy.
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