RE: Cold-Case Christianity
April 16, 2019 at 3:22 pm
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2019 at 3:25 pm by Simon Moon.)
(April 6, 2019 at 10:37 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: Has anyone read this book by J. Warner Wallace? I have a former HS friend turned religious fundie who is hell bent on converting me, and in the interest of a fair debate I told him I’d read it. I’m expecting the usual apologetics rundown of lowering the standards for evidence so we can include alleged eyewitness testimony, but I was just curious if anyone here had suffered through it so I can prepare myself for the pain. Thanks, loves! ❤️
Yeah, I read about 2/3 of it a while back on the request of a relative.
Same old arguments and fallacies we've all heard a thousand times. Since it was written by a former police homicide officer, theists think it has some added credibility, I guess.
Steve Shives does a pretty thorough refutation of it on 9 videos.
**It looks like wyzas beat me to it on post #15 above.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
