I've never read the book in question, but it sounds like the authors are apologists cast in the Francis Schaeffer mold. My first wife's parents, devout Pentecostals, gave me Schaeffer's Escape From Reason because they wanted me to convert and knew I was interested in philosophy. Schaeffer, they said, was a true intellectual, and they were sure I'd appreciate his work. What I found was an argument so vapid that I could only shake my head in disbelief. It's been many years, but as I recall, Schaeffer disposed of Hume in something like three or four paragraphs. His treatment of Kant was just as shameful. And so it went, one philosopher after another, each dismissed in the most ham-fisted (and erroneous) fashion. It was disgusting.
I find it odd and funny that people who believe the strangest bullshit because an old book says they should will then turn to partisan, hack scholars and pseudo-intellectuals to give their faith a patina of respectability. It's almost like they know deep down that their beliefs are ridiculous, and they will grasp at any straw to avoid admitting it.
I find it odd and funny that people who believe the strangest bullshit because an old book says they should will then turn to partisan, hack scholars and pseudo-intellectuals to give their faith a patina of respectability. It's almost like they know deep down that their beliefs are ridiculous, and they will grasp at any straw to avoid admitting it.
