He knows, but he prefers to pontificate in a manner that makes him look like he is right.
It's called obfuscation and intellectual dishonesty.
Its something youll find a lot of in Christian apologetics.
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What I want to know is this...
WLC debates lots of atheists. Surely in all those debates he's learned that self-professing atheists view the term as meaning "a disbelief in a god of gods", rather than "a belief that a god or gods do not exist." The same goes for agnosticism.
Given the fact that he must know this, what's his reasoning for presenting on his website definitions that run counter to what atheists say, as well as dictionary definitions?
At a glance:
"Many have taken what they consider to be an apparent lack of evidence for God as evidence that God doesn’t exist; that is, they look around, don’t see “enough” evidence and conclude that atheism is true."
Absence of evidence *is* evidence of absence.
Atheism does not make a positive claim, so cannot be 'true' or 'false'.
These are beginner mistakes. Why link to this stuff?
The links are just piles of Intellectual dishonesty, just like I said.
If we don't find evidence for God one might think that we have a sincerely good reason to either lack a positive belief in God or doubt it's existence.
It's how rational people approach questions in just about every single other area of their lives.
For instance: If someone came up to me on the street tomorrow and told me they had a great diet that would help me stay in shape and thin and had absolutely no objective evidence to back it up I would doubt their claims too.
You misunderstand why atheists get indignated at you.I find it quite ironic how offensive and indignant atheists get when their unsubstantiated views are challenged and yet, when they challenge a Christian's views, which are the only one's that have a basis in rational, logical, reality, they seem confused as to how they could be offended?
This advocation of a hypocritical double-standard is not becoming of men and women who pride themselves on being objective.
I'm currently reading a book called The Dawkins Letters-Challenging Atheist Myths by David Robertson. It is an excellent response to Dawkin's The God Delusion.
Does anyone know of a book and/or website that answers atheism in a comprehensive way?
Now that I think about it, I remember WLC trotting out these lines at the start of each debate, even after being corrected on these points in his previous debates. I can see why it no benefit to debate him with that level of intellectual dishonesty.
Go suck an egg atheists.
Is this an example of Christian love in action?
Is this an example of Christian love in action?
He's an example of those Christians who lie when asked in surveys how much porn they watch, how much they lie, how much they curse, etc. You'd think they're nearly saints!
He's an example of those Christians who lie when asked in surveys how much porn they watch, how much they lie, how much they curse, etc. You'd think they're nearly saints!
I have looked at porn, but not much in the last couple of years. I do cuss, but not as much lately. I do drink. I still crave cigarettes. I don't lie too often. And I know that I'm no saint, I'm a worthless sinner but God's grace and Spirit regenerates and gives true life.
try not to be so uptight, espescially with a name like sandwiches, come on man.
I have looked at porn, but not much in the last couple of years. I do cuss, but not as much lately. I do drink. I still crave cigarettes. I don't lie too often. And I know that I'm no saint, I'm a worthless sinner but God's grace and Spirit regenerates and gives true life.
try not to be so uptight, espescially with a name like sandwiches, come on man.
I sense some Hitchens in there.You're not a 'worthless sinner'. You are a human being with, like us all, a frontal lobe too small and an adrenaline gland too large. And despite this, you are a human being with dignity. That can understand our true lot in this life- our only life.
If there is one thing I despise about the Judeo-Christian religions, among others, is the self-flagellation. The belief that one is born disgusting and worthless, and sick. It's repulsive. It shackles us to a belief that we are worthless by ourselves- that we need something other than ourselves to help us through. It wipes away our dignity.
We do need something. We need the strength of our convictions. The only way for us to move forward is to help ourselves and one another as a people. We can't count on imaginary deities to bring us there. We have to do it, as we have been doing it for thousands of years. Education. Science. Technology. Progress. And to bring it all together...Art. Philosophy. Meaningful lives that we make for ourselves.
I know that as long as we fear death we will have these shackles. However, there may come a day when we will be truly free.
No. It is an example of my sillyness. Come on, "go suck and egg", it's obvious that this was tongue-in-cheek. So serious are we?
It's Poe's Law (or a derivation of it) that you can't tell when someone is joking or being an actual idiot without some clear indication of intention
I have looked at porn, but not much in the last couple of years. I do cuss, but not as much lately. I do drink. I still crave cigarettes. I don't lie too often.
And I know that I'm no saint, I'm a worthless sinner but God's grace and Spirit regenerates and gives true life.
It's usually very difficult to determine what's tongue in cheek over a chat forum, especially one where many posters would say things a whole lot worse than go suck an egg.... For example, we're immoral reprobates that deserve to burn for all eternity.
Just saying...
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