"Apologetics Rage" Post Leads To Visit By Apologist. Just My Luck....

[fatpie42]

I reposted my apologetics rage post on my own blog here. There you will see just a few comments. One from Cyranothe2nd saying that the guys I was talking to should be able to just accept that women were seen as objects and move on. This has just recently sparked a reply from an apologist (presumably after googling "apologetics", "Christianity" and

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[cyranothe2nd]

I have actually read William Lane Craig's book and he's an apologist only in the most trivial sense. His misunderstandings of string theory are profound and amount to hand-waving "See? the observer effect means *magic* is possible!"

Also, what could NT Wright mean by "play[ing] games with the humanity of those in between." Hmmmm...*strokes chin thoughtfully*

[fatpie42]

I have actually read William Lane Craig's book and he's an apologist only in the most trivial sense.

I'm not sure what you mean by "trivial". (Do you mean "blatant" or what?)

His misunderstandings of string theory are profound and amount to hand-waving "See? the observer effect means *magic* is possible!"

Yep, that's apologetics....

[cyranothe2nd]

I mean that he has no understanding of actual apologetics, as a field of study. He thinks Christianity begins with evangelicalism and isn't well-versed on Bible history, hermeneutics, etc, the stuff that a seminarian, for example, would be. His treatment of the whole philosophy is just sophomoric. (Not saying that the sophisticated apologetical arguments hold any water--just that there are much more sophisticated and plausible ones that the ones that Craig uses but he fails to use them because he's an undereducated evangelical).

[fatpie42]

I mean that he has no understanding of actual apologetics, as a field of study.I don't think you mean "apologetics". Apologetics is the process of arguing for the truth of the Bible and Christianity in order to convert non-believers