Hi Paul,

I read your arguments against Christianity. I must admit, very impressive.

Thanks.

It must have taken you a long time to research and publish such an extensive report. However, I do not agree with you.

If what follows are your reasons for doing so, I don't see how they lead you to disagree.

There is an ongoing spiritual warefare in the world. Just take a look around and you can see that we are losing.

By your "take a look around" standard, I'd say we are winning.

For the most part we have better "quality of life" yet people are more miserable than ever. This is proven over and over again in our world today.

"More miserable than ever"? I completely disagree. We live in freedom and prosperity unimagined by our ancestors (see http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/TCEH/Slouch_wealth2.html). Freedom and prosperity don't guarantee happiness, but if you want to see true misery, just take them away from someone who has them.

Things that where invented to make life easier have made them more stressful. I could go on and on.

What people perceive as "stress" is typically just a predictable reaction to the radically increased amount of freedom and choices that our modern world offers. But despite complaints about "stress", people by their behavior prove that they prefer having these freedoms and choices over not having them.

Fortunately I am not one of those people. I am truly happy. I have Jesus. The Lord. The Word. My life of course is not perfect, no one's is. But I am blessed with what I have.

An important technique for happiness is to recognize the value of what one has. Another technique is to delude yourself into thinking you have something that you don't, or that something you have is more than what it is. We probably disagree as to which of us is applying which of these techniques.

The point of this email was actually to thank you for writing your piece. My cup was filled so to speak. I must appologize for my poor grammar and spelling. I am definetly not a scholar but again, I Have Jesus.

One definition of a scholar is one who appreciates scholarship, and accepts no substitutes for it. So on the contrary, I'd say you're more of a scholar than you think, since you satisfy at least half of this definition.

thank you,

You're welcome.