RE: This Has to Stop
September 25, 2017 at 4:57 pm
(This post was last modified: September 25, 2017 at 5:13 pm by Crossless2.0.)
(September 25, 2017 at 4:45 pm)KevinM1 Wrote:(September 25, 2017 at 4:41 pm)Lutrinae Wrote: It's his cognitive dissonance protecting him. He thinks if he can fool his mind into believing there are no logical objections that we are wrong and he remains correct.
And yet, deep down he knows his reasoning is flawed. Otherwise, he wouldn't have spent the last several years (literally) rehashing the same argument in slightly different ways.
I see him as a guy who amazes his IRL compatriots, because he is a somewhat decent writer and definitely has conviction. But it's mostly just regurgitations of WLC and not much else.
And true to the WLC playbook, the name of the game now isn't to persuade that Christianity is true but to use every available trick up the sophist's sleeve to argue that one isn't irrational to believe clearly absurd propositions. For better or for worse, the Steves of the world are all that remain of a once proud intellectual tradition.