The Answers in Genesis website features an interesting article today entitled "Inherit the Prejudice." The author tells how he grew up not liking Christians and that he found a lot of seeming inconsistencies in the world.
While my case wasn't nearly as extensive as his, I can relate to a number of his thoughts:
I had experienced pain and suffering. Why did I have to suffer? In fact, why was the entire world such a horrible place full of war, starving children, murderers, child molesters, disease and cancer?
There are solid explanations for this, but unfortunately most churches do an utterly lousy job of teaching their children and adult members about these foundational issues. Maybe the church could afford to ignore the question of origins in a simpler age, but in our current world which brims with scientific inquiry, it's like letting your kids play unsupervised near a busy interstate highway.
Sadly, many people (like this author, and like me) are getting "run over" because too few in Christianity bother to explain "Why am I here?" and "How did everything come to be?"
The Bible says a people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, and that truth is being played out in our society. Even in the church, there are many who believe they have to compromise their theology and, because we place it under the banner of "science," believe in a myth (evolution) that requires far more "faith" than does belief in the claims of the Bible. In short, a little investigation reveals that science supports the Bible better than it supports evolution.
You can read the whole thing at http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2006/0814inherit-prejudice.asp.
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