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I posted a topic entitled, "First Do No Harm," recently with the idea that Christians prepare short, paragraph-length responses to common questions about Christianity, or theism for that matter. "Theism (also monotheism) is roughly the view that God has existed eternally, he has no limits to his power, his knowledge, or his love. He has created the world in order to demonstrate his love to mankind. He invites them to govern with him over creation. Mankind is valuable because God has created them with unique aspects of his nature, chiefly, the ability to make moral decisions and to love others and to love God." Now this paragraph above is an example (I just tossed it out rather than working with it and editing it which is a bad example of the process I'm suggesting) of the paragraph length description one might give to the any of the following questions: Why are we humans here on your view? I just read a book that said life is at bottom purposeless, without good or bad, right or wrong, we all are just dancing to our DNA. What do you think? Aren't theists atheistic about all other gods except for Yahweh? Insert any strawman derogatory idiocy by the online village atheist regarding theism here, stated in the form of a question. PLEASE CREATE AND SHARE YOUR OWN QUESTIONS AND ONE-PARAGRAPH ANSWERS BELOW. NOTE:PLEASE DO NOT "CORRECT" PEOPLE'S ACCOUNTS, THE WHOLE REST OF THE FORUM IS LITTERED WITH SUCH CORRECTIONS POSSIBLE TOPICS INCLUDE: why are we here? how do we get meaning in life? where do we go when we die? how do we live a moral life? how do we relate to God if he exists? how can a loving God allow so much evil and suffering? how can a loving God condemn men to hell eternally? aren't all religions the same? isn't it arrogant to claim your religion is the only true religion? Religion is a matter of faith not evidence or knowledge (That was just the one minute speed run of throwing out questions, I'm sure you can all come up with dozens of similar questions that need our scholarship and craftsmanship to produce a short, well-rehearsed response)