For instance, many religions have creation beliefs but the greatest number and loudest arguments are made against Christians. The Jews and Muslims are pretty much ignored along with all the others.
And often, despite what a Christian might say about the age of the universe, the anti-Christian raises a canned "belief" like a boxing bag, pounds at the inanimate thing a few times and declares himself victorious. Whoop-de-do, some battle that was.
Likewise in the above Noah Flood sidebar, the presumption has been made not once, not twice, but three times that my beliefs are what the correspondents say they are, not what I say. Again with the boxing bag instead of the live correspondent - and no attempt to argue against Jewish beliefs or flood myths in other cultures.
Nope, all the angst is directed squarely at Christianity per se - or perhaps, the anti-Christian's concept of Christianity.
Bottom line, such debates are rarely about the actual issues but a posturing between spirits pro-Christ and anti-Christ.
Perhaps the boxing bag is because we have the upper hand? After all, the words of God are spirit and life. The words of men are neither spirit nor life.
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, [they] are spirit, and [they] are life. - John 6:63
MUCH AGREE.
Bombast and the religion of scientism to counter TRUTH EVERLASTING.
Why?
Because TRUTH EVERLASTING !REQUIRES! a personal decision to reject HIM . . .
OR
SUBMIT TO HIM IN ADORATION, WORSHIP, COMPLIANCE . . . and thereby BECOME the best us we were designed to be . . . experiencing the most fulfillment, joy, wholeness, adventure, . . .
However, the arrogant WILL NOT have any such and demand to be their own standard of reality, their own god, their own criteria of proof . . . their own construction on all that is.
And . . . in a sense . . . they shall have that . . . and that in abundance . . . in starkly horrific unending deadness and the painful realization of what they willfully rejected.
. . . and Who . . .
they willfully rejected.
Wild guess, but this could be due to the fact that Christianity has much greater influence politically in the US than Judaism and Islam. Judaism is also less likely to take the anti-scientific positions of evangelical and fundamentalist Christianity. How about you convert to Islam and try to argue against the theory of evolution and I'll take you up on that as well.
And I see you have the "obliquely insult others" Religion Forum shtick down pat.
You: ”Seems to me that focusing angst on Christians is rather typical around here - and "out there" as well.”
The reason is rather basic, I think, and found in an old saw: “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” And the angst is directed to what the anti-Christian wants the world’s concept of Christianity to be. It is a propagandist effort.