RE: Dr. Craig is a liar.
May 13, 2016 at 8:58 pm
(This post was last modified: May 13, 2016 at 8:59 pm by The Reality Salesman01.)
(May 13, 2016 at 5:58 pm)Rhythm Wrote: It might be that for some believers who are interested in these arguments....acknowledging that they are insufficient is somehow tantamount to denouncing ones faith. That clearly can't be the case in actuality (their faiths -always- predate these arguments),....... but the way we see people go down with their burning ships time and time again on these forums seems to suggest that some perceive it that way.
I think their faith is like a house of cards. In the beginning, the first few cards are easy to stack...two of them straight up, one accross...(have faith, pray...etc.) If you spend enough time balancing it, the house gets bigger, it also gets less stable and these pseudo-arguments are a stiff breeze away from reducing it all to a game of 52 card pick-up! True, it's just a house of cards, but who wants to spend this much time building something only for some bully on the beach to put his fat foot through it. I've seen kids throw ridiculous fits over things like that. They're trivial and otherwise meaningless, but there's so much personal investment. Denial and confirmation bias keeps the house stacked on the table. What's that quote from Dan Dennett? The one about dedicating your life to a folly?...that.
