What do you think of William Lane Craig?

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I'm not rob.  And I haven't read any of his books.  I'm not much of a reader.  I've watched a few of his debates and read a little at his website.  How many books on Hindu spirituality have you read?

Oops. Sorry.

And none.

But then I'm not on a website calling Hindus liars, charlatans, deceivers...well, you get the idea.

But there are plenty of people here calling Craig that and worse without the benefit of actually having read any of his works.

So if I bothered to read Craig's books, would I encounter anything significantly different than the material he presents in his debates? If not, there's really no point wasting my time reading his stuff, since I've already wasted too much time watching him online. Will his 'Inner Witness of the Holy Spirit' bullshit be somehow more respectable in print than it is when presented in debate? I prefer to spend my time reading interesting and substantial stuff and am content to let you apologists muck the intellectual stalls.

Oh, and by the way, you may not explicitly call Hindus (or Muslims, orthodox Jews, Buddhists, etc.) "liars, charlatans, deceivers", etc. but as a Christian in possession of Divinely Revealed Truth you do, at the least, think they were all at some point lied to and deceived, right? It's ok to admit that you are actually on our team when it comes to all of the religions you reject out of hand. It's also ok to admit to yourself (since you certainly won't do it publicly) that you indulge in special pleading when it comes to your own religion, which is why sophists like Craig make such a nice living reassuring Christians that they really are reasonable people and that their strange fantasies aren't strange or fantastic at all.

But you think he's a significant philosopher.