Top Three Criticisms of Christianity

Picking from the embarrassment of riches

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If you believe that Christianity is the least tenable of the major religions, as you should, the question of the top three objections to that religion is a conundrum. It’s like picking the three finest jewels from a dragon’s horde of millions of precious items. There are too many problems to decide which are the most fundamental, damaging, or embarrassing to a religion like Christianity.

I’ve racked my brains to settle on what I think are the three most important objections specifically to that religion. These are meant to be general enough to apply to all major forms of Christianity, but not so general as to apply to all theistic religions. The question of whether God exists in the first place, for example, is obviously primary, but that issue doesn’t distinguish Christianity from the other faiths.

These three strike me as equally important, but I present them here in a logical order that shows how the problems unfold.

(1) Christianity trivializes God by literalizing its myths

Yes, there are Christian philosophers and mystics who devise abstract theologies and there are progressives who call themselves Christian even though they strip Christianity down to Stoic wisdom or…