WOTM: Arguments & Evidence, Part I
Hey gang! I hope you'll all indulge me (or at least forgive me) this month. I'm calling September "Mocktoberfest" in honor of William Lane Craig. I'm actually working on a video for next month calling on the entire Atheist community to return to the days of Dawkins, Hitchens, and Harris, in terms of giving religion no respect — of thinking it worthy only of mockery, ridicule, and contempt.
William Lane Craig reignited this fire in me with his truly unsophisticated comments about lowering the epistemic bar for Christianity. In other words, you're going to see a lot of mockery from me this month. But I think that's what everyone liked about Mr. Deity in the first place, right? So I think you'll enjoy it.
We'll return to our regularly scheduled programming next month. Or not!!! Ha!
Enjoy this! Part II is coming up immediately. And thanks so much for all your continued support! B
Comments (5)
I've been an Atheist for more than a decade now, but back when I was a Christian reading books by Christian apologists, I thought that William Lane Craig was one of the better apologists. However, to hear someone of his level of education and training say that "Christianity is true wholly apart from the evidence" is chilling in just how thoroughly it spits in the face of logic and sound reasoning. I'm glad that you are doing videos pointing this out. Until I saw this, I still thought that William Lane Craig was making an effort to maintain intellectual respectability, but I was wrong.
Poor Billy. Holy spirit, my arse. So instead of using his brain, he bases his belief on what his "gut" tells him. Carl Sagan addressed this long ago: "Often, I’m asked next, 'What do you really think?' I say, 'I just told you what I really think.' 'Yes, but what’s your gut feeling?' But I try not to think with my gut. If I’m serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble. Really, it’s okay to reserve judgment until the evidence is in.” Excerpt From "The Demon-Haunted World" —Carl Sagan
I gotta read DHW again. It's been too long.
Go for it Bribri!!
Yay!