"What is Considered Important Can Be Preserved"

Not too long ago, I had a conversation, albeit brief, with my youngest son.

I can't remember all the specifics but what I do remember is his stating that had he been born to a Muslim family, he'd likely be Muslim... if a Jewish family, he'd probably be Jewish.  

The gist was... faith is less intellectually assented to but more a by-product of one's environment.

Certainly some truth to that, and I don't think he meant this to be an end-all to the faith tradition people choose to align themselves with but... it does I think beg the question... comparatively speaking, which faith tradition is closest to the truth.

Will Duquette is effectively and cogently making the argument for Christianity:

It’s common to meet the claims of tradition with an invocation of the game of “Telephone”, in which a message is passed from person to person in such a way that it becomes hopelessly garbled. But messages of importance are not passed in this way. As an example, there’s an African people, the Lemba, whose oral tradition claim;s Jewish ancestry. They look no different than the peoples around them; but their culture is clearly based Judaism. To have a minyan, a quorum for worship, you must have what in modern America is called a “Cohen”: a descendant of the cohanim, the priests. Genetic studies have showed that the vast majority of the Cohens in America do share a genetic marker; and those considered leaders among the Lemba have been shown to carry it as well. Now here’s the thing: according to Lemba tradition, the Jews came to them about 2,500 years ago.

What is considered important can be preserved.

Last week, I talked about how I personally came to believe in Christ. This week, I want to talk about some of the reasons why I think, upon reflection, that Christianity is the truth. My path to belief was based on the authority of my parents and teachers in the faith, and my personal experience. But I’m an adult now; why does Christianity commend itself to my intellect?

G.K. Chesterton remarked once that the study of comparative religion makes it appear that all religious are basically the same, especially Christianity; and that this similarity is almost wholly misleading. Christianity, and Judaism before it, are entirely unlike the faiths that went before.

Please do read the rest.  Though brief, it cogently defends the veracity of the Christian faith.  Here's hoping my youngest will read it.  And you dear reader.

Carry on.