10 Questions that Every Intelligent Christian Must Answer: #10

My sophomore year of college I had just started my research to find out whether or not I should keep believing in Christianity (http://studentapologist.blogspot.com/2009/02/my-story.html). I was browsing the Internet and looking at a few atheist sites when I came across a video called, "10 questions that every intelligent Christian must answer". I remember watching it and it really caused me to think. I remember thinking that I couldn't really provide an answer for most of those questions. I then came across the video again my senior year of college and realized that I could answer about 7 of the questions. Then I came across it again a few weeks ago and realize that all of them can be responded to with substantive answers and that the questions themselves are not that thoughtful.

I will begin to deal with one question at a time working in reverse order, so this time I will start with Question 10, "Why do Christians get divorced at the same rate as non-Christians?"

The first problem with this question is that it says nothing to whether Christianity is really true or not. The Christian worldview accounts for the fact that Christians do things that are not right and at times dishonor the Lord. As Christians we are a work in progress. It is also important to point out that there are specific instructions in scripture regarding marriage and there are two instances in which divorce is permitted, although it is always the very last resort. One of those instances is in the case of infidelity. This unfortunately occurs far too often in our society. So, in order to make the point that Christians wrongfully divorce as often as non-Christians the statistics would need to exclude all marriages that end due to infidelity. Once this has been done we would then have to reevaluate the numbers but nevertheless the first point still stands. The Christian worldview accounts for Christians messing up.

One other point that I found of great interest is that this statistic may actually be all together wrong. Dr. Bradley Wright, a professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut, has written a book (http://www.amazon.com/Christians-Hate-Filled-Hypocrites-Other-Youve/dp/B004HB1BR4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317499115&sr=8-1) that shatters this myth. A brief article on this can be found at http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=34656 . Some numbers indicate that who regularly attend church are 35% less likely to divorce than non-Christians.

Although my response to question 10 is brief I think it is more than enough to show that this question is just plain bad.