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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I appreciate the thoughtful reply, but with good intent I need to point out they both include "obey".

In addition to demanding belief in a god who hides on purpose and punishes those for eternity who don't discover him.

Immoral, from my position.[/quote]

Let’s put aside the unreached, which is a very complicated topic and one where I believe the answer simply is “we don’t know.”

For everyone else — God is hardly hidden.    In fact, if you assume Christianity is true for a minute, it would seem like the most dramatic revelation of God that one can imagine — a person who lives the perfect life, performs miracles, teaches a profound new way of living, dies in the most horrific and public way imaginable, and then resurrects from the dead.   His biographies are then preserved in a way that accurately reflects what happened AND, because the original apostles were fishermen and not theologians, God takes one of the greatest theologian of the time period, Paul, leads him to have a conversion experience, sends him out to plant churches everywhere, and then write letters to these churches explaining the Christian doctrine, letters that we are still reading 2,000 years later.

I know it’s a lot of steps, but, if you believe it is true or more likely than not to be true (which is what I think the test really is)  — we don’t really need another sign.    I certainly don’t.

But anyway — it’s kind of besides the point of my post.   Someone asked what makes Christianity unique.  I was writing in response to that question.   
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