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New approaches to arguing for Christianity that we find emerging in the modern world:

• Arguments that lean towards pragmatic considerations
  • Christianity is the origin
  • Christianity is necessary
  • Christianity is a load-bearing wall
  • Christianity is the ultimate memetic attractor
• Arguments that use a different epistemology
  • We can simply conjecture God/Christ/Christianity
  • We can believe if we desire to do so
  • You should want Christianity to be true
    • eg: because it's the best story, because it's ultimately the only hopeful story, or because it's the only way through the Great Filter, or the only good outcome of Simulation Argument
• Arguments that lean on core mysteries:
  • Core mysteries:
    • Existence of the universe
    • Fine-tuning of the universe
    • Possibility of computation (not a given) — Computation as Fine-Tuning
    • Existence of rational minds within the universe
    • Hard problem of consciousness
  • Perhaps the best explanation of these mysteries involves recognizing a central significance to personhood
  • A universe in which personhood is significant is a universe that looks theistic, and arguably, Christian