Modern Christians may know that their ideal is having faith without any need for proof, but in their hearts they want good reasons to believe. For evangelicals, that tension is particularly intense: Their version of Christianity involves a very active, involved deity—but our world doesn’t show any signs of that Read more
Pseudoarchaeology holds a special place in the hearts of Christians who think the Bible contains real history. After all, this is the one discipline that should attest best to their claims about Jesus and his earliest followers—as well as demonstrate the veracity of the mythic tales contained in the Old Read more
Unlearning all the faulty logic and pseudoscience I’d learned while Christian was tough. But I had a much tougher time with unlearning how I’d learned how to learn and what knowing something actually means. I’d thought I had a handle on how to assess and absorb knowledge, but I was completely wrong.
Today, let me show you how toxic Christians resort to blame games when they realize they’ve backed themselves into a corner for lack of evidence.
A while ago, I wrote about why I deconverted. I’ve also written about some of the reasons I believed in Christianity. Or at least, these were the reasons I thought I believed. Today, I want to show you what the main underpinnings of my belief were, and how I figured out that those underpinnings weren’t true.
Christians seeking to sell their religion to others rely on two main methods. They can try to sell their religion on its own merits. Or they can try to knock down whatever they view right then as their main competition. It’s a big ole game of Last Ideology Standing, and for some reason it’s not working as well as expected these days.
The very best that apologetics arguments can ever do is make a lack of evidence sound slightly less damning.