RE: 10 Questions Every Christian Needs To Answer.
August 5, 2014 at 1:18 pm
(August 3, 2014 at 1:26 am)Cato Wrote: Careful Chad, your comparisons are absurd (hope you get the joke).
Awesome!
(August 3, 2014 at 1:26 am)Cato Wrote: ...claiming they're [my philosopher list] challenging doesn't really get you anywhere. Kant, Hegel and Wittgenstein can be considered challenging, but what of it?
I didn't mean challenging in the sense of difficult to parse. I meant challenging to the Christian faith.
(August 3, 2014 at 1:26 am)Cato Wrote: Regardless of his opinion about god, Dawkins is a preeminent evolutionary biologist.
There's not 'regardless'. He should stick to biology, because his theology is childish.
(August 3, 2014 at 1:26 am)Cato Wrote: Hitchens is the greatest polemecist in the language since Mencken.
That puts Hitchens in the same category as Protagorus. There is a deep chasm between rhetoric and philosophy.
(August 3, 2014 at 1:26 am)Cato Wrote: As a percentage, I would be willing to wager more atheists have studied Plotinus and Aquinus than believers.
I would actually take that bet if we included Catholic priests and seminary students.
(August 3, 2014 at 1:26 am)Cato Wrote: ...most believers couldn't tell you who Plotinus and Aquinus were.
I think you're right. If you totaled amount of dust collected on all the family bibles in the US you could top off several landfills. Then again, who's Mencken?