Brief thought: why I still have faith
My father-in-law asked me a couple days ago how my faith has withstood my reading so many anti-Christian and ‘skeptical’ books in general. I plan to write a further post (or perhaps series?) to more broadly answer the question, but I think the most ‘basic’ answer to the question is that I read old books. Greek dialogues — especially the Socratic kind — have caused me to be weary of anyone who (1) speaks in universals by employing broad and ambiguous terms and / or who (2) declares to have put forth the ‘ultimate argument’, whether cumulative or otherwise, against broad and ambiguous terms such as ‘faith,’ ‘Christianity’ (especially when Evangelicalism specifically, or fundamentalism specifically, are the target), ‘theism’, etc. who fail to define these terms and then proceed to superficially compare and contrast Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc. in the hopes of causing some sort of ‘death by a thousand qualifications’ without providing any real argument in support of their position.
I guess what I’m saying is that the ‘New Atheism’, at least, is a whole lot of sensationalism, with substance very apparently lacking. At least from my reading of it.
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