It all became clearer/more interesting when I realised that online Christian apologetics was really about sales - selling Jesus.
You can learn a lot as an anti-apologist by learning about sales techniques and how to deal with them (a useful thing to know about anyway). Here's a typical sales techniques website which recommends, amongst other things:
Lots and lots of copy and pasting, in other words. Just transform the language of a site like this and you've got a apologetics handbook.
So, rather than getting sick of hearing about Jesus, think of it all as opportunities to practice not buying a car, TV, whatever.
You can learn a lot as an anti-apologist by learning about sales techniques and how to deal with them (a useful thing to know about anyway). Here's a typical sales techniques website which recommends, amongst other things:
Quote:Creating a collection of the most powerful, focused and persuasive sales presentations and sales scripts specifically for your business, that your sales professionals can use to consistently shatter industry sales records and effectively counter virtually every objection, stall or form of resistance you’re likely to hear so that you can close the sale. Because different prospects need to hear different responses, you need 15-20 different immediately available responses to each objection to achieve maximum effectiveness with the full range of prospects you’re likely to encounter. If the script or presentation doesn’t close the sale, it advances you more quickly to the close, builds a deep level of trust and sets you up for the next powerful piece of sales dialog.
Lots and lots of copy and pasting, in other words. Just transform the language of a site like this and you've got a apologetics handbook.
So, rather than getting sick of hearing about Jesus, think of it all as opportunities to practice not buying a car, TV, whatever.
The gods did not reveal, from the beginning,
All things to us, but in the course of time
Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
These things are, we conjecture, like the truth.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor shall he know it, neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
And even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it:
For all is but a woven web of guesses.
Xenophanes
All things to us, but in the course of time
Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
These things are, we conjecture, like the truth.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor shall he know it, neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
And even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it:
For all is but a woven web of guesses.
Xenophanes