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What I see here is simply an overly used anger driven "list" of reasons that are supposed to make followers of Christ feel like fools for believing what they believe. And if they feel foolish, or as the author's say many times "stupid", then they will end their foolish system of belief.

If that were the case, Christianity would end as he says. Unfortunately, he is missing one vital point, Christians do not just believe in an idea, or even a collection of ideas. They believe in a personal God, one that they communicate with. And yes, to make the foolishness even more foolish, He talks back to them! Debating the legitimacy of the idea with people who already "know" God will fall on deaf ears. True Christians do not "choose" Christianity out of a list of viable options based on how logical it is, but realize that God has chosen all. The very basis of faith in Christ is based on the understanding that man's logic is already flawed. Unlike what the author thinks, most Christians are very aware of 1 Corinthians 2:12-14:

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God, which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.
But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.

If there is anything that upsets an atheist, it is this understanding. You cannot argue or reason against it. A list of "logical" reasons will not move a true Christian away from His faith. The only thing that will move a Christian away from His faith is if Gods (Spirit) no longer speaks to his heart in the depths of his soul. Those that are convinced of these arguments and moved away from their faith do not know God personally and have placed their faith in the "ideas" of Christianity, not in Christ, so they are easily drawn away by "natural reasoning".

The authors also fail to realize that conversion comes when God speaks to the heart first, then a "change of heart" occurs, and everything radically becomes different. Christianity no longer looks foolish, but becomes their very own salvation. Hence 1 Corinthians 1:18:

[ The Wisdom of God ] For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Nice try, but not dead yet...

(From a lengthy review of a children's Book called "It's Not the Stork!")

On page 48 of the book, it describes the different types of families: "Some families have one child. Some families have two, or three, or four more children. Some families have a mommy and a daddy. Some have a mommy. Some have a daddy. Some have two mommies. Some have two daddies. Some kids live with a parent or stepparent, or with an aunt, an uncle, a grandmother, or grandfather, or with a foster parent. Some kids live with one parent part of the time and with their other parent the rest of the time."

That page is the books flaw, a big one no doubt. A family with 2 mommies or 2 daddies is not a family according to God's Word and the design of God Almighty. I absolutely am not going to be teaching my children what God refers to as an abomination! The book is so great otherwise, what we did was just take a black marker and cross out that one statement "Some have two mommies. Some have two Daddies." It is not biblical or the will of God to teach such a thing to a child as if it is okay, regardless of it is becoming more accepted in the mainstream world today. So I write this just to help Christ-Centered parents be aware.

No doubt sometimes family situations (like step-families etc) are a result of sin and not having Christ at the center of our lives at the time these things occured, but a step-family, single-mom family and so on, does NOT mean that Christ is not now there at the center of that family. I know step-families, single-mom families, divorced parents, and so on that live Christ-Centered lives and so I find no error the statement on page 48 with regards to the various types of families. These are not signs of ongoing sinful lifestyle.

However, a family that is made up of same-sex parents is not a picture of a biblical family period! There is no such thing as living in sin biblically! If a person is living a homosexual existence they are living an existence condemned and seperated from God. A "family that has two mommies or two daddies", though some may consider it to be a "family", the bible does not consider or teach it to be so, and so parents that are trying to use this book as a tool to teach their children about the "healthy sexuality" and such, will want to beware of this page.

Children need not be taught that an sinful choice such as a same sex relationship, is a healthy form of a family just as God's design for a family which is ONLY one Mommy and one daddy. In no way does that mean homesexuality is worse than any other sin. BUT a "family" with homosexual parents is a one illustrates a lifestyle of ongoing sin, it is sin and it does separate us from God and a homosexual lifestyle can not be the way of life of a follower of Christ, and Christ-Centered parenting teaches that homosexuality is an abomination ... NOT that it's a hunky-dory family.