28-Jan-2011, 08:51 AM
(This post was last modified: 28-Jan-2011, 09:58 PM by arvindiyer.)
Here is yet another article at the Huffington Post, where a 'religious moderate' has supposedly 'checkmated a skeptic'; with the interesting title "What's the least you can believe and still be a Christian?"
After ritually knocking down a few strawpersons, the author makes a case for Christian belief by listing these advantages:
Hold on a second! Life's most profound questions? Is 'semi-literate carpenter-turned-village-preacher from Bronze Age Palestine' a valid answer to the first question? All a skeptic can say is 'Nice try!'. There is no need to take the trouble of explaining why we don't think there is any sense of priority or proportion in these listed Christian pre-occupations. Prof. Feynman has already done so:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zi699WzAL0#t=1m45s
Prof. Feynman's 'too-local-too-provincial' objection is expanded a bit in Item 1 in this recent post..
After ritually knocking down a few strawpersons, the author makes a case for Christian belief by listing these advantages:
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A great benefit of these beliefs is that they provide promising answers to life's most profound questions including:
• Who is Jesus?
• What matters most?
• Am I accepted?
• Where is God?
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Hold on a second! Life's most profound questions? Is 'semi-literate carpenter-turned-village-preacher from Bronze Age Palestine' a valid answer to the first question? All a skeptic can say is 'Nice try!'. There is no need to take the trouble of explaining why we don't think there is any sense of priority or proportion in these listed Christian pre-occupations. Prof. Feynman has already done so:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zi699WzAL0#t=1m45s
Prof. Feynman's 'too-local-too-provincial' objection is expanded a bit in Item 1 in this recent post..