10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.
Clay Miller: Or you vigorously deny the existence of absolute truth (a natural consequence of atheism) and get outraged at all by anything. If you take your atheism to its logical conclusion you would just live and survive, but never ever get mad at something you would deem “immoral” because morality is all in your delusional head.
9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.
Clay Miller: Hmmm, I think this David Letterman wannabee is assuming I am insulted that someone thinks I came from nothing which created itself (?????) and evolved along with a great orderly universe with all its symbiotic relationships into a icky ick, and eventually some sort of hominoid and then my great, great, great, great, great, great, et al granddaddy. Well no, no offense taken. Sort of feel sorry for that person actually…I try not to laugh because really it is sad that you will believe absurdity like…dirt or something less than dirt evolved into man on its own, rather than a God big enough to do anything took dirt He created and recreated something out of it. It is kind of like saying, “You are delusional if you think light waves have something to do with your FM Radio…smart atheists no what I am talking about…so I do hope I do not need to explain how light waves are harnessed so you can listen to you stereo and “rock out dude”.
8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God.
Clay Miller: I would not say I laugh. I would say I have yet to discover a coherent polytheistic religion. I would also say that the Bible presents one God in three persons. That, obviously unknown to our miniature Letterman here, is not a philosophical contradiction. If we said God is three persons and one person, that would be a contradiction. If we said, God is three beings and one being, that is a contradiction. However three person in one being is not. Simply take a dead body. A person inhabited that body, that being you see in the casket. But the person in gone. If this is not enough, please do go to your local university, find the best atheistic philosophy teacher you can find and ask him if the statement, “God is three persons in one being: is a contradiction. So…sorry, you would be the foolish one here.
7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" including women, children, and trees!
Clay Miller: Actually little Letterman, I do flinch. Because you see, God knows those babies and people inside and out and you do not. You presume to. You presume to know God’s intentions for the babies. You presume it is wrong for God to determine when a life will end. You presume we are entitled to live as long as we say. God, as God can take a life anytime He desires. I find it ironic that your face turns purple when you hear of such atrocities, being an atheist and all with no absolute moral standard. Who are you to even begin to talk about something being bad or good? What? Because you say so? That is laughable. Who are you to any of us? See you betray yourself by expecting us to allow you to force your standard of morality on us…so are we supposed to be in shock and awe that you would try to impose your moral standard on God? You presuppose babies and people are good and entitled. On a horizontal level, that is, between men, they are, but not with God. That is hard for you to swallow, But nonetheless, you prove why we deserve God’s wrath.
6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.
Clay Miller: You seem to bringing a little bit of Mormon theology to bear on the account…at least it sounds like an implication. But we do not say the Holy Spirit actually had sexual intercourse with Mary. I am sort of embarrassed for you at this point but will continue…Basically God, who was capable of creating an infinitely complex universe, allowed Mary to miraculously conceive…let me help you hear. The miracle would not be that she had sex with a God. That would just be bizarre but it would not be a miraculous conception, just a miraculous union. See, the miracle was, she was a VIRGIN. Look that up in the dictionary if need be. If she would have had sex with the Holy Spirit then, well…I think you get the picture. So, yes, Gee, I guess if God can create the intricate universe, the amazing human body, and all the complex creatures from atoms to stars and microscopic organisms and galaxies, etc…goodness, could he? Would he? Actually be able to put a baby in Mary’s womb??????
5 - You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes in the scientifically established age of Earth (few billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is a few generations old.
Clay Miller: The sad thing is little Letterman here thinks he is smarter than ‘bronze age’ tribesman. I wonder if little Letterman has his own army or is even a thousandth times as wealthy as the Fathers of the Old Testament. He must be to make such a bold statement. Loopholes? Little Letterman is talking about the inconsistencies and contradictions of Old Earth science. And he does not quite get the drift that evolutionary dating is based on assumption…yes ask any naturalistic evolutionist. Sorry. Oh and if you could show me where they tested these theories in a lab and observed them, that would be helpful in classifying them as “scientific” rather than faith-based as they are.
4 - You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs -- though excluding those in all rival sects - will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most "tolerant" and "loving."
Clay Miller: I actually consider Christianity to be very narrow. Little Letterman is the one forcing this on all Christianity. The way is narrow and few find it. From man to man, horizontally, Christians are to be longsuffering and tolerant because we are saved by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone to the glory of God alone and that not of ourselves but it is something God did in us…His elect. God is tolerant enough to let you fight Him and hate Him and live for a while, rather than sending you straight to His feet to see He is and who He is before pouring His wrath out on you.
3 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in "tongues" may be all the evidence you need to "prove" Christianity.
Clay Miller: Little Letterman is here showing delusion in thinking the Bible teaches us to believe based on signs and wonders. True science is provable, geology is evident, biology is evident, and physics…think about the complexity of physics…all that just evolved so perfectly from nothing? Little Letterman takes all the proof of the Bible and only needs reinterpretation of the evidence to “prove” atheism.
2 - You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.
Clay Miller: Little Letterman has no way of understanding the purpose and pursuit of prayer. Prayer is not naming and claiming something…it is seeking God’s glory in a situation and that brings the rate to 100%. He misses out though because his idea of success in prayer is getting exactly what you ask for rather than seeking God’s will and glory in His answer.
1 - You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call yourself a Christian.
Clay Miller: The funny thing about that statement after these pathetic straw men arguments is that Little Letterman thinks he actually proved something. Ironically, God could say the same thing about atheists: You think you know so much about science, geology, biology and physics and the Bible and church history and Christianity, and world religions…and you still call yourself intelligent? God laughs (Psalm 2).
