Unbelievable?: Why after ten years of talking with atheists, I'm still a Christian

There is no ‘default’ position. Everyone is called to give reasons why their view of reality is the best explanation of the universe we live in.

Maybe God isn’t interested in people simply believing in him. Instead, I think God is far more interested in people loving him and trusting him than merely believing in him.

hell isn’t God’s punishment for not believing the right things; it’s a self-imposed exile and final end for those who simply don’t want God.

when it comes to Christianity, a simple survey of history will soon confirm that, far from poisoning everything, it has been responsible for masses of positive things. The modern benefits of healthcare, education, social provision, human rights, and even literature, art and music can all be found to have roots in the Christians who were inspired to

the Islamic view of Jesus stands against the vast weight of prevailing scholarship.

Within Christian belief suffering is at least a mystery we can hope to make sense of. In atheism, it is simply meaningless.

Atheism and Christianity tell two very different stories. One is a story of ultimate purposelessness – the ‘blind, pitiless indifference’ of Richard Dawkins’ universe. The other is a story of ultimate meaning and hope – hope that there is a reason for our existence, hope that our lives mean something, the hope that death is not the end. A hope that

From its inception, Christianity has been a public religion making claims that could be held up to historical scrutiny in the place it was birthed.

The idea that human rights, welfare provision and equality will naturally prevail in any educated society was a secular myth, he said: ‘Everything we take for granted as being part of the natural state of things absolutely isn’t, and the reason we have these assumptions is because our society is saturated with Christian assumptions.’