Is Christianity Believable? Hasn't It Finally Been Debunked? From time to time, some new book comes out suggesting that rational people could never believe the Christian faith. Some new information, some new discovery, some new argument supposedly reveals the Christian faith is utterly incredible -- and at last has been completely debunked. Finally! These authors argue, or at least imply, that only the weak- minded, the ignorant, the superstitious, or the uninformed could be taken in by such preposterous rubbish. From time to time we may offer some links on this page to some responses to such books. The links do not necessarily reflect the views of St Marks, our clergy, or our members. They are simply offered here as a convenience to friends seeking alternate views to some of the supposed "rebuttals" to the Christian faith. Responding to: Hitchen's god is Not Great    Hans Stein's review in Telos: "The members of the religious camp have to cease treating secularists as less moral than themselves -- the atheists have to stop thinking that believers are less intelligent. ." Sam Schulman's review Commentary: "This is the sort of reasoning that gives syllogisms a bad name." Mary Riddell's review the Guardian: "The Gospel According to Hitch." Mark Robert's Series: Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Reliable Facts? Part 3: Gospel Issues Part 4: Q, Canon, and Tampering Part 5: Census, Eyewitnesses Part 5: Census, Eyewitnesses Part 6: Misunderstandings, Distortions I Part 7: Misunderstandings, Distortions II Part 8: Ridicule Part 9: A Better Place Part 10: Curiously Unscientific "It's this radical inability to comprehend or even take an interest in the nature of religious experience with anything resembling imaginative sympathy -- a rather patronizing analogy with his own loss of faith in Marxism notwithstanding -- that makes "God Is Not Great" such a disappointing book. Watching a man of his intellect and learning go to work on the indefensible crassness of religious fundamentalism is rather like watching a vainglorious father running rings around his young son in a game of soccer. Hitchens might have engaged with the nuanced, less easily ridiculed faith of William Blake or Simone Weil, thinkers in whom he would have found worthy opponents. But instead he confines himself to picking apart fundamentalism, and we are the less enlightened for it." -- Giles Harvey, in Salon Brown's The da Vinci Code    What About The da Vinci Code? St Mark's Episcopal Church 12700 Hall Shop Rd, Highland, MD 20777 __________________________________________________________ St Marks is convenient to Clarksville MD, Columbia MD, and Laurel MD, in Howard County, half-way between Baltimore and Washington DC. Click here for a map and directions.