"Sincere, but a lying manipulator, brainwashed to believe "at all costs"."
I think he is a very intellectually dishonest person, although admittedly smart. I think he is basically a narcissist, but not necessarily in the clinical sense--probably not. But an egotistical person, yes. It's all about him. Others, like Sam Harris or whoever, are doing this because they want to contribute to an intellectual conversation in the world and change people's minds in a good way so there will be less violence etc. WLC, I think, does it because he wants to look both smarter than everyone else and morally superior. It's probably the sort of trick he has always been able to pull off. He gets off on shutting people down in this way. And you can hear it in the paternal and condescending way he talks. Christianity is a good way for him to get at the moral high ground. It is that sort of tool for a lot of people. He is just one of the few that is good at arguing.
As for his actual arguments, they are pure obscurantism and mental gymnastics.
I think it's kinda like what someone, I forget who, said, "William Lane Craig is irrelevant". I used to think, "why haven't more Christians started using his arguments, since they are the most 'sophisticated'?" Well, that's not why most Christians are Christians. They aren't in it for sophistication.
I think he is a very intellectually dishonest person, although admittedly smart. I think he is basically a narcissist, but not necessarily in the clinical sense--probably not. But an egotistical person, yes. It's all about him. Others, like Sam Harris or whoever, are doing this because they want to contribute to an intellectual conversation in the world and change people's minds in a good way so there will be less violence etc. WLC, I think, does it because he wants to look both smarter than everyone else and morally superior. It's probably the sort of trick he has always been able to pull off. He gets off on shutting people down in this way. And you can hear it in the paternal and condescending way he talks. Christianity is a good way for him to get at the moral high ground. It is that sort of tool for a lot of people. He is just one of the few that is good at arguing.
As for his actual arguments, they are pure obscurantism and mental gymnastics.
I think it's kinda like what someone, I forget who, said, "William Lane Craig is irrelevant". I used to think, "why haven't more Christians started using his arguments, since they are the most 'sophisticated'?" Well, that's not why most Christians are Christians. They aren't in it for sophistication.
