Debunking christianity and loftus
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Freeing Ourselves (and Others)
What counts as evidence?
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This meme popped up on my Facebook feed recently: “When a man creates a god, he can tell you all about him, what he likes and dislikes. That’s how imagination-gods work.” This describes a practice that has gone on for millennia: Humans have indulged in creating, imagining, and describing gods in detail—many thousands of them. The writers of the Bible were committed to this practice, but they disagreed far too much about Bible-god. Hence clergy, theologians and apologists have devoted so much time and energy to diverting attention from the contradictions, making excuses for them, and minimizing the bad consequences. All in the interest of keeping their particular versions of Christianity intact.
But they’ve tried another ploy as well: labeling atheism as a faith. John Loftus has addressed this baffling approach in an article published on the Secular Web a few days ago, Is Atheism a Religious Faith? A Definitive Answer (and then on this blog, 7 February).
He cites a 2004 book co-authored by Norman Geisler and Frank Turek, I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist.
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John Loftus “Debunking” the Faith
James White, , General Apologetics
I was looking over Evan May’s blog this morning when I ran across a link to some comments posted by John Loftus on the “Debunking Christianity” blog. I noted with some humor the presence of Dan Barker as one of the contributors to that blog. I will never forget the radio programs I did with Barker, both by phone and in person on the Tom Leykus show many, many years ago. Anyway, Loftus, allegedly a former “Christian” with an Th.M. from Trinity (I haven’t bothered to check out the claim, it’s fairly irrelevant given the nature of this material) posted a series of “questions your Pastor will hate.” I don’t have time today to tackle all of them (I believe someone over at Triablogue already did), but I wanted to quickly note one of them as it is being repeated so often people are starting to believe it merely due to repetition. Here is the question:
“Why does the Apostle Paul, who writes most of the New Testament, NEVER quote Jesus, tell a story of his life or death, discuss a miracle or teaching?” Answer…Where do you get this stuff?
Paul referred to the death of Jesus Christ constantly. Surely Mr. Loftus has