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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Christianity Is Dying Out | |
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| Christianity is uncool and old-fashioned | |
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| Christianity is outdated and dying out | |
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| Christianity is boring | |
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| Christianity is a fairy tale | |
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| Christianity is confusing | |
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| Christianity is a superstition | |
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| Christianity is a myth | |
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| Christianity is magic | |
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| Christianity is antiscientific | |
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| Christianity Is Destructive | |
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| Hitler was a Christian | |
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| The inquisition executed millions of heretics and witches | |
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| Christians are intolerant fanatics | |
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| Religion causes more war and suffering than atheism does | |
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| Corrupt clergy show that Christians are hypocrites who do more harm than good | |
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| Christianity supported black slavery | |
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| Christianity consists of "thou shalt nots." | |
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| Christianity stunts self-development and personal happiness | |
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| Christianity is insensitive to other beliefs | |
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| Christianity is mainly about sin | |
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| Christianity impedes progress | |
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| Christianity supports war and the death penalty | |
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| Christianity favors the rich | |
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| Christianity is anti-environment | |
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| Christianity is anti-sex | |
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| Christianity is anti-choice | |
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| Christianity is sexist | |
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| Christianity is homophobic | |
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| Christianity is antisemitic | |
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| Christianity is racist | |
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| Christianity is antidemocratic | |
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| Christianity is a religion of reward and punishment | |
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| Christians believe in Christ because they are afraid of death | |
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| Christians need a crutch | |
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| Christianity is immoral | |
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| Christianity warps children | |
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| The Christian community has repented for its sins against others | |
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| Kings, popes and other leaders used Christianity to justify their power | |
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| Christianity is Eurocentric and colonialist | |
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| The crusades were imperialist aggression | |
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| Christian missionaries degraded indigenous cultures | |
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| The great cathedrals were built with slave labor | |
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| Christians burned down the Great Library at Alexandria | |
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| Christianity has nothing to do with law and justice | |
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| Christianity Is Stupid | |
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| Bright people don't believe in God | |
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| Scientific evidence has shown that there is no God | |
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| Christians persecuted Galileo for saying Earth revolves around the sun | |
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| Christianity differs from atheism in being faith-based | |
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| Most leading atheists are scientists | |
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| Medieval Christians believed Earth was flat | |
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| Christianity represses free thought | |
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| Christianity is irrational and unreasonable | |
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| Belief in Christianity is incompatible with science | |
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| Science did not originate in Christianity | |
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| The evidence of evolution points away from Christianity | |
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| Christians are creationists who deny evolution | |
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| Christians object to evolution on the basis of a literal reading of the Bible | |
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| The legal system and the media understand the relationship of Christianity to evolution | |
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| There is no evidence for theistic evolution | |
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| Science is about facts, religion about values | |
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| There is no evidence in nature for intelligent purpose in the cosmos | |
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| There is so much Christian art because the church paid for it | |
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| The Renaissance prevented Christianity from stamping out the classics | |
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| Jesus and the Bible Have Been Shown to Be False | |
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| The original Bible exists | |
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| Christians worship the Bible | |
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| Christians take the Bible literally | |
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| The text of the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) is uncertain | |
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| The New Testament can be understood without the Old Testament | |
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| The Apocrypha are not part of the Bible | |
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| Modern scholarship debunks the Bible | |
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| Jesus is (fill in the blank) | |
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| The Jesus of history is different from the Christ of faith | |
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| The Apostle Saint Paul invented Christianity | |
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| The earliest followers of Jesus did not believe him to be divine | |
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| Early Christians suppressed the true religion of Jesus, and the truth about Christianity is found in secret codes and documents | |
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| Gnostics are Christians | |
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| Little or nothing is known about Jesus | |
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| Jesus was illiterate | |
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| The New Testament was composed long after the death of Jesus | |
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| The Gospels contradict one another | |
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| Christianity is a remodeled pagan mystery cult | |
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| Christmas is the main Christian holiday | |
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| Christians believe that the book of Revelation predicts the future | |
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| The canon of the Bible preceded the creeds | |
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| Christian Beliefs Have Been Shown to Be Wrong | |
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| The church changed the Bible to fit its doctrines | |
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| The creeds are irrelevant to modern Christianity | |
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| Christians believe that God is found only in church | |
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| Christians believe in three gods | |
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| Christians are dualists | |
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| Christians believe that Jesus is a son of God just as we are all sons and daughters of God | |
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| The Christian God killed his own son | |
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| Christianity is about dogma | |
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| Christianity is about rules and rituals | |
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| Christianity is based on feelings | |
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| Fundamentalism is ancient Christian teaching | |
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| Christians believe in the immortality of the soul | |
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| Evil doesn't exist, and the existence of evil disproves Christianity | |
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| Christians believe in evil | |
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| Christians believe that everything that happens is God's will | |
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| Christians believe in hell | |
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| Christians believe in the Devil | |
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| Christians believe in original sin | |
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| Christians believe in predestination | |
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| The diversity and number of denominations disprove Christianity | |
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| Eastern Orthodox Christians are a fringe group | |
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| Catholics are not Christians | |
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| Protestants are heretics | |
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| Orthodox and Catholics worship idols | |
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| Orthodox and Catholics worship Mary | |
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| Orthodox and Catholics belittle the Bible | |
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| The Catholic church discourages reading the Bible | |
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| The Catholic church is monolithic | |
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| Purgation is not an early Christian idea | |
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| Catholics invented the sign of the cross | |
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| Protestants had no reason to divide the church | |
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| Protestantism is puritanical | |
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| Rome's claim to be central to Christianity is a power play | |
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| Pentecostals, evangelicals, fundamentalists and creationists are ah the same | |
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| Christianity has no spiritual tradition as Eastern religions do | |
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| Christians believe that they eat the body of Jesus | |
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| Christians believe that Jesus created the world | |
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| Christianity adopted pagan practices | |
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| Miracles Are Impossible | |
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| Miracles are explained away by science | |
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| Christianity is false because miracles can't occur | |
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| The resurrection of Jesus has been disproved | |
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| The resurrection of Jesus was a "resurrection experience" rather than a physical resurrection | |
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| Worldviews Can't Be Evaluated | |
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| Few people believe in God anymore | |
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| God is the product of structural and chemical arrangements in the brain | |
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| If there is a God, he has a lot of explaining to do about suffering | |
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| Atheists oppose Christianity mainly on intellectual grounds | |
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| Christ couldn't have had any impact, since things haven't got better since his time | |
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| "I don't know" is the most defensible position | |
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| Christians believe that Christianity is one of a number of equally valid paths to God | |
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| What we believe about Jesus and God affects who Jesus and God are | |
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| Extraterrestrials are more probable than angels | |
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| What's New Is True | |
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| The latest religious theories are the best | |
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| New Age and Christianity are compatible | |
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| Reincarnation is compatible with Christianity | |
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| Christianity leads to wealth | |
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| The Da Vinci Code is fact-based fiction | |
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| The real founder of Christianity was Constantine the Great | |
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| Christians believe in the Holy Grail | |
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| Archeologists found the family tomb of Jesus | |
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| Religion needs to be removed from the public square | |
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| Christianity is different from what it is | |
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| Nothing is true | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Persons Index | |
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| Subject Index | |