Questions and Topics Raised during Interviews with an Atheist
From the 9th of 9 interactions:
- 00:20 How can a Christian believe a book with things like Balaam’s talking donkey and the suppression of women’s rights?
- 02:40 What about people selling their children into slavery in the Bible?
- 03:30 Matthew 16 and Mark 9′s promise that some living disciples would see Jesus come in power and glory: the disciples are all dead and He hasn’t come back; why not?
- 04:35 Don’t Christians believe the Bible simply because of their presupposed faith? And if they read it with the analytical eye of the atheist, wouldn’t they stop believing it?
- 05:35 Isn’t religious belief just a product of cultural upbringing?
- 06:20 Why is God jealous?
- 06:45 Does the command to serve no other gods imply that other gods exist?
- 07:35 So Christians believe there are no gods other than Yahweh?
- 07:55 Why is there cerebral palsy? and why would eating a fruit in the Garden of Eden produce such catastrophic results?
- 09:30 Why in a world of suffering do Christians spend millions on huge and exquisite buildings?
- 10:25 Why won’t God heal amputees?
- 11:00 A final argument from Smalley: Christians are just humanists with a tacked-on belief in God.