Christians say the darnedest things...

Ran across two gems on Facebook.

"Atheism teaches us that we can have morals but not a God."

No,  it doesn't. "Atheism" is not a philosophy any more than "monotheism" is a religion or "sound" is a type of music.  You can have a sound that is called "music," or a religion that is "monotheistic," or a philosophy that is "atheistic," but there is no "philosophy of atheism."

"Atheism fails to deliver valid or consistent solutions to life's toughest issues concerning truth, morality, rational thinking, logic and common sense."

There are an estimated 41,000 different versions of "truth" just within Christianity.  Just within Protestant Christianity, (less than half of the world's Christian population) there are anywhere from 20 to 30 thousand different (often competing) versions of "truth."  And Christianity is the tip of the iceberg as 2/3rds of the world's population isn't even Christian.

And within each version of "truth," there are completing versions of "morality" as well.

So what is a "rational thinking" person supposed to do with this information? What sort of "logic" and "common sense" can we use to draw a conclusion from all this?

Possibility 1: Everybody's right.  This is impossible as it violates the fundamental assumption that logic works from (if A = A, then A can never = B.  In other words, 2+2 cannot equal 3 and 4 simultaneously.  It must equal one or the other. There cannot be "two right answers" to such a question.)  These competing versions of truth and morality are often at odds.  So it is impossible for them all to be "right.".

Possibility 2: The "right" answer is hiding among the many "imposters."  If this were true, then religions would get less divergent over time as imposters would be exposed as such and would be discarded.  That also means that there would have to exist a way to independently verify "true" religion from false.  Since religion and it's claims deal with some sort of "Super-reality" outside of the one we currently inhabit, we would also need some way to independently verify the existence of this "Super-reality" in addition to a way to independently verify any claims made involving entities or consciousnesses from this "Super-reality." If such a thing exists, it is the best-kept secret in the world.

Possibility 3: All religions are based on equally unverifiable and unreliable claims and accepting one over all others doesn't make any sense.If this were true, then the thing to do would be to not "hitch your wagon" to any one particular system and remain "unaffiliated" and "unconvinced" as far as such things are concerned.

Sounds right to me.