RE: My argument for atheism +
February 14, 2020 at 6:12 pm
(This post was last modified: February 14, 2020 at 6:13 pm by Belacqua.)
(February 14, 2020 at 4:42 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: While I’d hardly call Plato, Aristotle etc ‘cranks’, you make a very fair point. Christianity is, in a very practical sense, what the majority of Christians believe it to be. No one is going to make much headway against a literal hell, substitutive sacrifice or infant damnation by poking holes in what Aquinas had to say about it.
Boru
Christianity is a lot of different things. It's not accurate to pretend it's monolithic.
While it is good to argue against the most simple-minded Christians, we shouldn't pretend that our work is finished at that point.
As Popper says, you have to attack your opponent on his strongest argument. If you only attack the weakest one, all the hard work is left to do. Opponents of religion like Dawkins who treat all Christianity as if it were the dumbest American literalism and then declare victory are naive.