Dialogue with a Christian Proselytizer (Paperback or Softback)

This book is a Socratic dialogue between a Christian proselytizer and a skeptic. The skeptic gets the proselytizer to spell out all the reasons he rejects non-Christian religions, and the discussion then turns to examining Christianity by the same light.

CHRIS PROSELMAN: Good morning sir! Please take this pamphlet, and read it carefully. For Judgment Day is coming soon, and you must choose between accepting Jesus as your savior or suffering eternal damnation.
SCOTT CRATES: I see that your pamphlet says this--but although I mean no offense, why do you believe that this pamphlet is accurate?
CHRIS: Because its text comes directly from the Bible: the Holy Word of God, as recorded by the writers He inspired.
SCOTT: And why do you believe those writers had any sort of divine connection?

This book is a dialogue between a Christian proselytizer and a skeptic--a skeptic who does not argue with the proselytizer, but seeks only to clarify why the Christian believes he knows what "God's Word" is. The proselytizer identifies his knowledge of the Divine as coming from three sources: faith, the Scriptures, and the evidence of God in our physical surroundings. The Christian and skeptic then discuss each of these sources and reach tentative agreements in the following three areas:
- the "design" argument for the existence of a Master Designer, and the subsequent assumption that such a Designer would have been likely to make some sort of communication effort with the one species given a genuine language;
- that in trying to make sense of all the multiple and conflicting versions of Divine Directions that we may choose from, a reasonable conclusion is that only one came from God, whereas the rest must have just been made up by man;
- all the reasons that non-Christian religions fall into the "Made by Man" category: they're pieced together from pre-existing religions, their holy laws include those based on irrational prejudices and erroneous conclusions about cause and effect, and their stories contain inaccurate and earth-bound descriptions of the universe (stars that are tiny, a moon that shines its own light, a sun that orbits a flat and stationary earth, etc.).

The discussion then turns to examining the Christian religion in the same light as the non-Christian. Their conversation remains a respectful exchange of ideas, but is no longer harmonious.