Our Christians today only Christians because of the culture of the area and the world that they grew up in will discuss that in today's episode.

J. Warner Wallace is a cold-case homicide detective who's been investigating cold-case murders in Los Angeles County for over a decade.

His work has been featured on Fox News, Dateline, and Core TV.

Now, we join him as he applies his investigative skills to making a case for Christianity.

Welcome to this episode of the cold-case Christian broadcast. I'm Jimmy Wallace.

And I'm J. Warner Wallace. Look, Jimmy, you and I have both written about a common objection that we hear sometimes.

And I think we're hearing it more as Christianity is kind of shrinking and numerically in America.

We see the polls. It looks like people who identify as Christians are fewer and fewer among us.

And this objection I hear sometimes is, well, look, you're only a Christian anyway because you happen to be raising a Christian culture.

If you were born someplace else, you would be raised with some of their belief system.

So they're really challenging whether or not any of us have even examined our views or if we're just kind of reflecting the culture around us.

Now, you've written an article about this and we'll start with that.

And that article is called Does Our Location Determine Our Religious Beliefs in which you directly address this issue.

It's on our website at coldcaseChristianity.com. So I know that you've kind of heard how it's voiced.

It's voiced in a specific way. You actually see this online. So why don't we start there?

Yes, I found a quote from a 2008 article written by a guy named Ken Midkiffon.

He says the following, if you were born in Afghanistan, chances are excellent. You'd be a Muslim and bow to Allah.

Norway, Lutheran, Israel, Jew, India, Buddhist, religion, in that sense is not a choice. It just depends on where you're born.

Now, I just found this article by this guy, Midkiffon. I don't really even know that much about him personally, but I think that he is repeating some of the claims that I've heard many, many times from many people in the media, in my own life.

This idea that if you didn't grow up in a Christian culture, you wouldn't be a Christian. You just happen to be born in America during a time when Christianity was pretty rampant.

That's probably why you're a Christian. And I mean, who knows? Going forward, if America is less Christian overall, then less people will be part of this faith. It's all just geography.

Christianity is not an intellectual belief. It's just an accident of birth, basically. Whatever, wherever you happen to be born, that's what you're going to believe.

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