Christianity Today has a hagiographic article on Alvin Plantinga. Let's take a little look.
Plantinga has been called “America’s leading orthodox Protestant philosopher of God,” “arguably the greatest philosopher of the last century,” and simply “God’s philosopher.”
LoL, really? The greatest fucking philosopher of XX century? So I guess Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, and Jean-Paul Sartre can all take a hike.
He is one of the of the most-cited contemporary philosophers in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Even on the link they provide he's number 30, which isn't exactly the top. And I guess that it wasn't for his religious baloney.
Once the positivist strictures about talking about God were removed, philosophical theology flourished as it has not since the middle ages.
So once they removed any logic and/ or verifiable evidence (because that is what positivism means) their philosophy flourished. Well, something flourished, but it was not philosophy.
Plantinga went so far as to make the case that it was rational to believe in God without evidence or a good argument—or any argument.
No shit, Sherlock. Once you remove all the logic and verifiable evidence, you are left with nothing but a blind, mindless faith which you then call a philosophy because it sounds fancy.
Plantinga has been called “America’s leading orthodox Protestant philosopher of God,” “arguably the greatest philosopher of the last century,” and simply “God’s philosopher.”
LoL, really? The greatest fucking philosopher of XX century? So I guess Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, and Jean-Paul Sartre can all take a hike.
He is one of the of the most-cited contemporary philosophers in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Even on the link they provide he's number 30, which isn't exactly the top. And I guess that it wasn't for his religious baloney.
Once the positivist strictures about talking about God were removed, philosophical theology flourished as it has not since the middle ages.
So once they removed any logic and/ or verifiable evidence (because that is what positivism means) their philosophy flourished. Well, something flourished, but it was not philosophy.
Plantinga went so far as to make the case that it was rational to believe in God without evidence or a good argument—or any argument.
No shit, Sherlock. Once you remove all the logic and verifiable evidence, you are left with nothing but a blind, mindless faith which you then call a philosophy because it sounds fancy.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
