(January 2, 2023 at 8:21 am)Belacqua Wrote: I think that Hitchens and Dawkins and people like that really did terrible damage to human understanding.
They wrote with the idea that theology is so easy and so obviously wrong that you don't even really need to know what it says. You can just show that it's wrong with no effort or thought. Dawkins' description of the Fifth Way is so blatantly wrong that he should never be trusted with anything again. He lives in Oxford -- he could get on his bicycle and go to the home of two dozen people who could explain it to him. But that would take a teeny bit of effort, and he doesn't think that's necessary.
The OP is repeating the same error he made, knowingly or not.
Exactly how?
Theology IS easy to dismiss, just as easy as dismissing Superman and Tinkerbell. The hard part is deconstructing theology to those who whom are willfully ignorant.
