polymathwannabe comments on Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points - Less Wrong

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Comment author: polymathwannabe 07 April 2015 10:38:41PM 1 point [-]

To me the weakest points of Christianism are two:

  • The lack of evidence for the existence of its deity. Even proving that a deity exists is not enough; you would still need to prove that the deity you found is the one described by the Bible. And proving that the Christian deity exists would still not be enough; you would also need to prove that the Bible describes it accurately. And even then you would need to prove monotheism, i.e. that other possible gods aren't real too.

  • The internal inconsistencies and factual errors in the Bible. Specialized websites like IronChariotsWiki and RationalWiki can give better descriptions of this problem than I could.