Why I’m a Christian

In ye olde current year, many people think that being a Christian is a matter of irrationality, bigotry, or political conservatism. While all of those things bear some weight upon whether one is likely to be a Christian or upon the sort of Christian they are, I think there are other reasons entirely. In the following posts, despite my not being some philosopher, historian, or theologian, I’ll give my reasons for being a Christian with respect to the three phases of persuasion in Aristotle’s rhetoric: ethos (appeal to personal credibility via knowledge, expertise, and moral connection to the audience), pathos (appeal to emotions), and logos (appeal to logic and facts).

1. Ethos
   1. The moral credibility of Jesus
   2. The moral credibility of Christianity’s best
   3. The power of Western Civilization
2. Pathos
   1. Hell
   2. The Cosmic Story
   3. Tribalism
3.  Logos
   1. Why I think God exists
   2. Why I think Jesus was raised