“There are no Christians, as far as I know, blowing up buildings. I am not aware of any Christian suicide bombers. I am not aware of any major Christian denomination that believes the penalty for apostasy is death. I have mixed feelings about the decline of Christianity, in so far as Christianity might be a bulwark against something worse.” - Richard Dawkins
Given some of the less charitable things Dawkins and his ilk say about God and Christianity, it's interesting to note just how much unbelievers of all faiths prefer Christian morality over that of their own religions. Such is the power of the moral argument. All who dare to think about it will soon see that the reason they are so enamoured with Christian moral principles is because Christianity is the truth.
To the unbeliever, this may sound arrogant to say, and offensive to hear, but if you dare, hear me out. The aspects of Christianity that people most enjoy are love, equality for all men, peace and tolerance, and the use of reason. Yet, none of these flow naturally from any other religion. Christianity, and Christianity alone, accounts for all of these.
At a later date, I may write other articles for all of them (and have already done so for reason), but for sake of this article, let's just focus on equality. Even bigots love equality, because although it "elevates" lower classes to their level, it also prevents other classes from elevating themselves above them. Yet, Christianity is the only religion that both allows for, and sustains, positive equality for all men.
Some religions promote equality, but do so without foundation. That is, they say all men are equal, but they cannot explain where that equality comes from. Other religions provide foundation for inequality; they promote inequality, and can give "good" (within its internal framework) reason why. Still other religions have neither explicit nor reasoned defences for equality.
Equality, furthermore, cannot be proven by evidence. In fact, all evidence points to the fact we are very much not equal. We aren't all equally fast, equally strong, equally intelligent, equally rich, equally capable of equal tasks etc. We aren't even all equally intact. The one and only physical equality human beings have is that we are all equally alive, but even then, many have died, and so to argue for true equality, we must argue that equality works retroactively, too.
So already, equality of value, which is what we mean when we say we're all equal, can only be imputed to us by some non-physical agency. Something outside of humanity, outside of even physics, must care enough about us to say "yes, you are all equally valuable". Of course, the alternative is that we are all equally valueless. This would be the contention of atheistic religions, such as Evolution. Value doesn't really exist in such religions.
Of course, there are religions that do promote equality. But it is a mere statement, and in some cases, extends to other things. Things we, as humans, must consider unequal for no other reason than our own survival. These religions often talk of "karma", yet karma is never given an explanation as to how it makes judgements, or from where it gets such authority.
On the flip side, there are religions which have a foundation, yet would use that maliciously. Islam, for example, contends that Muslims are the best of people, whereas Jews and Christians are the worst of creatures. This is quite a contrast, and obviously not a religion non-Muslims would want to live under. Even many Muslims do not want to live under Islam, fleeing the most consistently Muslim countries, skipping over other Muslim countries and landing here in the post-Christian West.
So, what of Christianity? Christianity presents God as the Creator of all created things. Everything that is not God exists because of God, and was actually created by His very word. He said "let there be light", and there was light, and this continued for 6 days until He had created everything up to and including mankind. Our rights come from Him, and He has distributed them equally. In fact, in order to be like Him, He tells us to even love our enemies. And He exemplifies this, sending rain on the righteous and wicked alike. God's authority is incontrovertible, and He declares us equal. Therefore, we are equal. All skin tones, all ages, both genders, all religions, all equal, and in a good way.
Unfortunately, there is another equality with some very nasty consequences. We are all equally enslaved to sin. See, while we like some aspects of Christian morality, we dislike others. Moral principles, such as equality, please us very much, but moral specifics, the "thou shalts" and "thou shalt nots", get in our way quite a lot. So we treat it like a buffet. We take the aspects we like, we discard the aspects we don't.
But then we become the foundation. Love, equality, reason, these become based upon our fallible selves. To bind others to it, we would have to declare ourselves greater! We have made ourselves gods, and in so doing, we have made our moral views as flimsy as our own bodies. We recognise the very truth that we do not want to acknowledge. We take our own paths, with nothing to compel others to take it with us. At least, nothing but the same force with which Hitler ruled his reich. Yet even then, complaince is external.
So what we see here is that ultimately, even an unbeliever knows Christianity is true, and even wants it to be, yet at the same time, sin compels us to reject it. This sin, even Christians are not immune to. I'm certainly not. But I look forward to the day when, by His power, I will be.
All human beings are faced with a choice. Our conscience testifies to God's superiority. We see, and even like, His morality, condemning us for every time we stray from it. As scripture says, "for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves, who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them) in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel." (Romans 2:14-16). What is our choice? Continue in this futile path of ours, only to find out that God truly is on the throne, or repent, confess Him as Lord now, and believe in our hearts God raised Him from the dead. Effectively, acknowledge, and live by what we already know, or continue to delude ourselves that we know better.