RE: Is Accepting Christian Evidence Special Pleading?
September 19, 2017 at 1:34 pm
(This post was last modified: September 19, 2017 at 1:38 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
A competent apologist can diffuse special pleading objections by reminding his interlocuters that he has come to his religion by faith, he didn't argue himself into it. It's only special pleading when you actually -do it-, and the nature of some statement as a component in a special pleading argument does not actually make the conclusion of that argument inaccurate. A christyian believes their stories are true despite the similarities, and believes that others stories are false despite the similarities. They cannot rationally argue this case...but they don't need to, because they have faith in their stories..and none in the stories of others. That leap is, supposedly, theologically important. The difficulty and even inability of rationally distinguishing true and false prophets is strongly supported by scripture. Many will be lead astray, after all.
Too bad we don't have any competent apologists....you'd think that the "faith" skyhook would be obvious to the simpletons just the same....but apparently it isn't.
Too bad we don't have any competent apologists....you'd think that the "faith" skyhook would be obvious to the simpletons just the same....but apparently it isn't.
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