Questionaire For Christians

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With so many religions available why did you pick Christianity and how do you know that you've made the right choice? Are you the religion you are because most people accept the same religion as their parents?
As the bible has been proved to be an unreliable guide on matters such as history, science and biology, why do you assume that it can be trusted on matters concerning ethics, morality and theology?
Why doesn't prayer work, when the Bible promises in John 14:14 for example, that it will? In fact, why pray at all? If it changes God's mind then he is not sovereign. If it does not change God's mind then it's superfluous and a waste of time.
Is it possible that the devout Catholic, Adolph Hitler, could be in heaven if he had truly repented prior to his death?
Why is it that when you view someone else’s beliefs, for example the beliefs of Hindus, Buddhists, Muslems, etc, you have no problem seeing the errors, but you dismiss your own religion’s errors as though they were inconsequential?
Evolution is proven fact and it continues to be proven beyond any doubt in every related field of science and is much more reasonable than the creation account found in the Bible. Christianity stands or falls on the validity of the Old Testament teachings about the creation and nature of Man. Evolution and related sciences prove that there was no Garden of Eden, no Adam and Eve, Man did not Fall and does not need a savior. As the biblical Creation account is wrong and as there was no reason for mankind to require 'saving' why are you still a Christian?
Why does the Christian church always trail behind rather than lead in social reforms? Take for example the demise of feudalism and the rise of capitalism, the acceptance of the scientific method and critical thinking, the abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, civil rights and the abolition of slavery. And why does the church dishonestly claim leadership in these reforms after the fact?
Why have all the rational arguments for the existence of God been successfully refuted? If your God exists, are we being unreasonable to suppose that there would be at least one irrefutable proof of His existence? Can it be possible that believers, who have the advantage of an indwelling Holy Spirit with an "infinite mind," can be stumped by "finite minds" of unbelievers working within the confining limitations of reason?
Why was Jesus so similar to the other saviors of mythology? Do you believe in any of the other virgin births, resurrection and savior myths recorded in other ancient literature? How is it that so many Christian rituals and ceremonies, such as baptism, eating the body and drinking the blood of their gods,etc. have been adopted from older pagan religions? Why were the defining doctrines of Christianity assimilated from pagan cults? Why is Christmas, Easter, Lent, rogation days, and others, derived from pagan holidays. Didn't Christianity have any legitimate calendar of commemorations of its own?
Why can't the six accounts of the resurrection be reconciled? Paul in Corinthians 15:14 says that without the resurrection, the Christian faith is in vain. Why are the biblical accounts contradictory and how could they possibly disagree on an event that is vitally important to the Christian faith?
Why are women treated as chattel and inferior to men throughout the Bible? For example Lot, who was called righteous in 2 Peter 2:7-8, giving his daughters to be abused by the men of Sodom ~ Genesis 19:8?