I've been doing sort of a self-study on "Christian Apologetics", and I have to say I am impressed. Never before have I been so violently propelled away from the idea of an Invisible Space Wizard so fast as to listen to hours of Christian apologetics spilling cherry-picked scientific truths, and spin them to fit their theological agenda...to those mentally incapable of refuting them.
I'm a science teacher. I "do" science every day. I understand it pretty damn well. Armed with this, I can comfortably say that apologetics scares the shit out of me. Not because it might have a snowball's chance at being true...but because it is so obviously birthed from the realization that Christians cannot "fight" science anymore...so they may as well twist it to suit their needs; much the same way a politician will embrace a formerly rejected idea, when he learns how he can profit from it.
Christian Apologetics is the whoring out of learned scientific principles to fit an unscientific agenda. The only thing more offensive than that, is watching Christians of reasonable intelligence foam at the mouth that they now have "scientific PROOF" for their [G]od...yet they know nothing about science, and their aura of theological appeasement lulls them into being too lazy to find out for themselves or even ask relevant questions.
Sorry if this has been covered at length...I searched...I promise.
I'm a science teacher. I "do" science every day. I understand it pretty damn well. Armed with this, I can comfortably say that apologetics scares the shit out of me. Not because it might have a snowball's chance at being true...but because it is so obviously birthed from the realization that Christians cannot "fight" science anymore...so they may as well twist it to suit their needs; much the same way a politician will embrace a formerly rejected idea, when he learns how he can profit from it.
Christian Apologetics is the whoring out of learned scientific principles to fit an unscientific agenda. The only thing more offensive than that, is watching Christians of reasonable intelligence foam at the mouth that they now have "scientific PROOF" for their [G]od...yet they know nothing about science, and their aura of theological appeasement lulls them into being too lazy to find out for themselves or even ask relevant questions.
Sorry if this has been covered at length...I searched...I promise.
Let your anger be as a monkey in a piñata; hiding with the candy, hoping the children do not break through with a stick.
