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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 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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What We Can Learn About Atheists from Atheist-Whisperer Bo Wagner.
Last time we talked, we covered a “satirical” straw man essay written by a Baptist pastor, Bo Wagner, about a fictional atheist. A pity he doesn’t actually know what satire is, any more than he knows what atheism is. Today … Continue reading
Posted in Hypocrisy, Religion, The Games We Play, Theology
Tagged Abiogenesis, American Atheists, Argument, atheism, Baptists, Belief, Biology, Charles Darwin, Christian fundamentalism, Christianity, Christians Behaving Badly, Comedy Gold, Evangelical Christianity, Evolution, Logical Fallacies, Tu Quoque Fallacy, WTFery
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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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The Handbook: Why Arguments Aren’t Evidence.
We’ve talked before on this blog about what evidence looks like, and I don’t feel like I have much to add on that particular topic than I wrote last year. But today we’re going to talk specifically about why an argument alone should not constitute compelling evidence for the supernatural claims of Christians, how to spot someone using an argument in lieu of evidence, and how to short-circuit the tactic. Continue reading
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