Thanks for asking! Nobody's ever asked me before.
I was very active for several years; then I fell away for a while; recently I've come back again. I'm pretty sure there was a period there where there was no Apologetics forum for debate between Christians and nonbelievers, so I'm happy to see it back again.
I've been exposed to a great many arguments from apologists, and I have learned that all of the arguments, very nearly without exception, are deeply dishonest. Now, it's not nice to have to say this, and I don't want to imply that all apologists are deeply dishonest, because that would certainly not be accurate. But every single argument for god that I've ever encountered has been based on fallacies, and the art of apologetics is itself dishonest.
This is, really, to be expected. If God does not exist, but if you are determined to prove that He does exist, then you are faced with the problem of having no evidence. So, the evidence must be manufactured, problems overlooked, and allowances made. This becomes very easy for the apologist in a sense, because they know that God exists and that their religion is incorrect, and so any mistakes in their apologetics either don't count or must not be mistakes at all.
This makes it difficult to pin apologists down. Some of them will wriggle, some of the will will change the subject, some of them will deny point-blank that they just lost the topic, and some of them will get indignant with incredible ease. Pinning them down is an interesting exercise!
I was very active for several years; then I fell away for a while; recently I've come back again. I'm pretty sure there was a period there where there was no Apologetics forum for debate between Christians and nonbelievers, so I'm happy to see it back again.
I've been exposed to a great many arguments from apologists, and I have learned that all of the arguments, very nearly without exception, are deeply dishonest. Now, it's not nice to have to say this, and I don't want to imply that all apologists are deeply dishonest, because that would certainly not be accurate. But every single argument for god that I've ever encountered has been based on fallacies, and the art of apologetics is itself dishonest.
This is, really, to be expected. If God does not exist, but if you are determined to prove that He does exist, then you are faced with the problem of having no evidence. So, the evidence must be manufactured, problems overlooked, and allowances made. This becomes very easy for the apologist in a sense, because they know that God exists and that their religion is incorrect, and so any mistakes in their apologetics either don't count or must not be mistakes at all.
This makes it difficult to pin apologists down. Some of them will wriggle, some of the will will change the subject, some of them will deny point-blank that they just lost the topic, and some of them will get indignant with incredible ease. Pinning them down is an interesting exercise!
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