I now consider myself an official Christian apologist. I have received my first piece of “hate mail” from the atheists in the community. Darrel inflicted a previous post with this gem:

False Doctrine, false religion? Curiosity leads me to post on this site, so as you quote “let each be fully convinced in his own mind” so HE is! Does age make your religion any more valid, myself I despise all religion with a passion, but if he totally believes as you obviously do. What or I suppose in your case who should judge. As a human being and nothing more I really do wish that people like yourselfs and Tom Cruise would realise that we are after all the spawn, seeds, whatever romantic words you would like to attribute, of our sun and therefore evolution. None of your inane ramblings are going to make the slightest bit of difference to the growth of this world (other than reducing the population).
In the hope that religion dies before me (which I doubt)

Indeed, he brings up a very good point. What makes any religion more valid than the other? Age? Certainly not. Judaism is much older than Christianity, certainly a forerunner of Christianity, but not a true religion in any sense. We are no longer waiting for the promised Messiah; for Jesus has already come.

Scientology is another man-made road to spirituality. It is man reaching to God. In fact, it is man’s attempt to be God. Scientology tries to turn us into something that we can never become.

I’m not saying that it is all bad, necessairly. Part of your path to enlightenment in Scientology is reaching out to the world around you and leaving it better than you found it. Christianity is not a works-based salvation in this way; your works don’t save you (as they do in Scientology and other man-made religions), rather, your good works should flow naturally from a desire to serve and please your Creator. God, through Christ, has already paid the price for your sins; they no longer matter. That’s all of your sins–past, present, and future!

I assume that the bit where people like me and Tom Cruise are going to do nothing to impact the world’s population except reduce it is a reference to terrorism carried out in the name of religion. Interesting. In this post, I have been lumped into the same category as Tom Cruise and terrorists.

I would emplore this reader to check the evidence for evolution against the evidence for design in Lee Strobel’s The Case for a Creator, as well as a website like this. I would also encourage him to keep an open mind as to what God will show him on this journey.

But he’s already made up his mind, hasn’t he?