Monday, October 20, 2008

THE AVERAGE CHRISTIAN'S APOLOGETIC ABILITY

I just finished reading James Parker's review of Religulous in The Atlantic Monthly. The most perceptive, and saddest, quote if you are a practicing Christian is the following:

Religulous should make the faithful wince. The average Christian--as if we needed reminding--makes a piss-poor apologist for his own faith.

As I thought about this, maybe there is something worse--it's scientists who try to defend their evolutionary world view and tenure battles in the movie Expelled. When Richard Dawkin's raises the issues of aliens jump-starting earth, is it any different from Christians trying to justify their faith? Then again this type of film-genre may lead to these kind of responses or omit the more serious arguments.

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