The Founding of Rationally Christian

It is no secret to Christians that Christendom is under attack. It has always been under attack. Philosophically, morally, socially, and culturally, people of all faiths and motives, including those within our ranks, actively try to pervert and destroy the ideals God has set forth. Like the sun’s rising, it is expected often, and it is expected everywhere.

What isn’t quite as expected is what we observe when we look at all the arguments together. We are simultaneously told by an array of critics that we should avoid Christianity because it is a crutch for the weak, yet unnecessarily burdensome; it turns men into docile sheep that avoid necessary confrontation, and it turns men into violent crusaders. G. K. Chesterton puts it best:

As I read and re-read all the non-Christian or anti-Christian accounts of the faith, from Huxley to Bradlaugh, a slow and awful impression grew gradually but graphically upon my mind - the impression that Christianity must be a most extraordinary thing. For not only (as I understood) had Christianity the most flaming vices, but i had apparently a mystical talent for combining vices which seemed inconsistent with each other. It was attacked on all sides and for all contradictory reasons. No sooner had one rationalist demonstrated that it was too far to the east than another demonstrated with equal clearness that it was much too far to the west.

-G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

There are many such paradoxes, all by their very nature perplexing when taken as a whole. How can these contradictory claims be true? Where do the critics' claims have merit? What can we do about those claims, and how can we best counter those that do not?

Therein lies the main purpose of Rationally Christian: To make sense of it all. The critics shall critique, and we need to be able to analyze and respond accordingly, countering their arguments when they err, and improving and growing when we err. We also need to challenge ourselves, testing our ideas critically against what we learn in the world.

I and the other contributors (which I have yet to recruit) will be diligently doing just that for you here. As well as showing through science the evidence for God’s existence, and dealing with some heretical teachings that have infiltrated our churches.

I look forward to learning and growing with all of you.