Of course this logic is also evidence of any number of other deities - but it probably wouldn’t be all that productive to bring that up over there. My favorite was the one about morality (#3), closely followed by #11, the existence of fanatics.
The persistent moral sense within the human heart, which goes beyond pathetic evolutionary explanations. That’s evidence not just for an impersonal intelligent designer, but for a personal, moral God.
Got that? No god, no morality.
The fact that the apostles were willing to die rather than renounce their belief in the resurrection of Christ.
Apparently this sort of unbending belief is a requirement for truth of deity, which sort of worries me…. down through the years there have been a whole lot of very scary people willing to die for their beliefs.
Ah well, (one or another) god love ‘em…. at the very least their an interesting bunch ‘eh?
The last line reads “This topic deserves more than shallow thinking and faulty argument. Where you spend eternity depends on it.”
This concept of eternal damnation has to be one of the best marketing ideas ever.
Unfortunately it can turn friends with a genuine concern for your wellbeing into pesky prosletizers.
I answer that I try to live by the Golden Rule which they interpret to mean that I’m playing Pascal’s gambit.
It is largely fruitless to engage in rational discussion about something that in the end requires a leap of faith to accept.