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To all who consider yourselves “culturally Christian”, but get hung up on our supernatural claims because “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”: have you considered the fact that your cultural Christianity IS extraordinary evidence?

You didn’t choose another culture. You don’t believe in honor killings, or cannibalism, or foot bindings, or totalitarian states, or human sacrifice, or any of the many other practices of countless other cultures.

Out of these myriads of other choices, you chose the Christian culture. Because you liked the culture we built, on the foundation of Christian principles. Because you believed that everyone is made in the image of God. That we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights. That God wants us to care for the fatherless and the widow, the poor and the downtrodden. That we should love our neighbors, and even our enemies. That the greatest Leader is the one that sacrifices for his people, even to the point of death on a cross.

So you must have some information - some evidence - in your head already that allowed you to choose this one culture, out of these vastly many choices. What is the p-value of something like that? What is its Bayes factor, that let you make this extraordinary many-to-one choice? Mathematically, this amount of evidence must correspondingly be extraordinary.

And if you understand that this is a great amount of evidence, but you don’t know if that’s quite enough, then start looking into the actual supernatural claims of Christianity. There you’ll find enough evidence to make the case all on its own. If you need a place to start, I suggest the resurrection of Jesus Christ - I lay out the case for it in this post.