RE: Help! Discussion with Christian dad
April 26, 2014 at 4:41 pm
(This post was last modified: April 26, 2014 at 4:43 pm by SteelCurtain.)
It seems you jump around a lot. First and foremost, that is a common Christian tactic to keep from answering any questions, especially the hard ones. I would stick to one topic. It is really hard to debate someone without a clearly defined topic. Something like "Is the Bible a reliable historical work?" or "Is the Bible a good source for morality?"
Then you really need to stick to that topic yourself, and hold his feet to the fire to answer the tough questions.
All that said, I do believe that debating family members on FB is going to be a lesson in disappointment. You are not going to change his mind, and he is going to resent you for it. I think the best you can do is enlighten him on what you actually do believe.
Then you really need to stick to that topic yourself, and hold his feet to the fire to answer the tough questions.
All that said, I do believe that debating family members on FB is going to be a lesson in disappointment. You are not going to change his mind, and he is going to resent you for it. I think the best you can do is enlighten him on what you actually do believe.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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