(August 30, 2012 at 1:29 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: If religion were right, there would be no need for apologetics.
Hmm. I don't see why that's true; just because something is true doesn't mean that it's obviously true.
Quote:Apologetics is not the art of searching for the truth. Apologetics is the art of taking a preconceived ideology and looking for reasons to believe it.
From wikipedia, which isn't necessarily the most reliable source:
Christian apologetics is a field of Christian theology that aims to present a rational basis for the Christian faith, to defend the faith against objections and misrepresentation, and to expose error within other religions and world views.
If apologetics is about defending Christianity against objections, it includes defending Christianity against the objection "A person searching for truth would not end up a Christian".
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
