Posted: Mar 27, 2012 11:49 pm
Welcome, Promethian! 
What a well written OP. It's a shame that the entire thing amounts to an appeal to consequences. What you are saying is that within your rather myopic view of atheism, objective morality, contra-causal free will and love cannot exist and you couldn't stand a world like that. Therefore, somehow Christianity is true. Leaving aside the fallacious core of your argument, your "theistic response" does nothing to explain the phenomena but rather explains it away with an appeal to magic.
You have nothing to offer beyond "I don't think atheists can explain it; therefore magicmandunnit".
What a well written OP. It's a shame that the entire thing amounts to an appeal to consequences. What you are saying is that within your rather myopic view of atheism, objective morality, contra-causal free will and love cannot exist and you couldn't stand a world like that. Therefore, somehow Christianity is true. Leaving aside the fallacious core of your argument, your "theistic response" does nothing to explain the phenomena but rather explains it away with an appeal to magic.
You have nothing to offer beyond "I don't think atheists can explain it; therefore magicmandunnit".