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Tag Archives: Apologetics
The Handbook: Recognizing an “Argument From X” Attempt.
We’re going to be heading back to God’s Not Dead next week, but before we do that, I wanted to finish up something we were talking about last time we covered the Handbook for the Recently Deconverted: one of Christians’ very … Continue reading
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Tagged Agnosticism, Apologetics, Argument, Christian apologetics, Cosmological Argument, Duck Dynasty, Existence of God, Handbook for the Recently Deconverted, Kalām cosmological argument, Logical Fallacies, Ontological argument, Silicon Valley, Stephen Fry, Teleological Argument, The Unicorn Test
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The Handbook: Wishful Thinking in Apologetics.
Today we’re talking about wishful apologetics: those arguments that ache and yearn for an idealized form of Christianity. Special Guest: C.S. Lewis. Continue reading
The Handbook: Apologetics: Pascal, Ontological, Cosmological.
Today we’re going to be taking a twenty-five-cent tour of some of the apologetics arguments people are likely to see once they’ve deconverted, along with an overview of the arguments’ flaws. Continue reading
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Tagged Abiogenesis, Apologetics, apologists, Blaise Pascal, Christian apologetics, Existence of God, Handbook for the Recently Deconverted, Kalam, Kalām cosmological argument, KCA, Logical Fallacies, Ontological argument, Pascal's Wager, William Lane Craig
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The Handbook: The Second Big Mistake Apologists Make.
Last time we talked about apologists, we talked about their first big mistake: that they start with a conclusion and find some kind of logic that will get them to that conclusion. That’s called arguing top-down. In bottom-up arguing, one … Continue reading
The Handbook: The First Fundamental Mistake Apologists Make.
Last time we talked about the various ways that I got induced to believe in Christianity. I briefly made a mention of apologetics, and wanted to start talking about some of the arguments that specifically held my attention. Before that, though, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancient history, Apologetics, apologists, Archaeology, Argument, assumptions, Christian apologetics, Circular argument, Debates, Handbook for the Recently Deconverted, History, Lawrence Krauss, Logical Fallacies, reality, Renaissance, Richard Price, Roman Empire, Rome, Science, the real world, William Lane Craig, WLC, Words
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When It’s Not Funny.
Last time we talked, we covered a straw man essay written by a Baptist pastor, Bo Wagner, that he called satirical. A pity he doesn’t actually know what satire is, any more than he knows what atheism is. Last time … Continue reading
The Handbook: Circular Arguments.
I’ve compared the efforts of Christian apologists to watching a Roomba repeatedly hit a wall, and nowhere do we see that analogy in action better than with a circular argument. That was one of the early topics I tackled here here on this blog like a year and a half ago, but I want to discuss circular arguments because since then I’ve noticed even more that Christians like circular arguments–almost as much as this tuxedo cat likes riding its Roomba. Continue reading
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Tagged American Christianity, Apologetics, Apostasy, Apostasy in Christianity, Christian apologetics, Christianity, Circular argument, Circular reasoning, compartmentalizing, Debates, Evangelical Christianity, Handbook for the Recently Deconverted, I see WordPress is cooler about animated gifs now, Logical Fallacies, truth
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Joyce Meyer and The Double Standards of Christian Derpitude.
We’ve talked about Joyce Meyer before in this space. She’s an easy target, low-hanging fruit, even a piñata, so to speak. She’s a shrewd businesswoman who knows her target audience and panders to that audience shamefully and completely. I can’t even really blame her for finding her niche and tailoring her approach to it as well as she has; if it weren’t her, then it’d be someone else there in her place.
And who is that audience? Middle-aged Christian women who just want to feel a little assurance that they’re doing the right thing, women who believe that their faith will be rewarded if they comply and who need reassurance that that reward is still in the offing. Continue reading
Roll to Disbelieve 