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Sep. 8th, 2014 11:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
avevale_intelligencerNew episodes will appear today, and will be announced here and on DW, FB and Twitter as usual.
In the meantime, I have to get some of the stuff out of my head. In order to get rid of a thought I have to write it and let it out; otherwise it hangs around and gets in the way. And since I'm having to bite my metaphorical tongue more and more on this here internet, to avoid getting into "debates" that are actually arguments, it's a growing problem.
When secularists/rationalists/atheists/anti-religionists post on the net, they usually recycle one or more of a very few, very old arguments against--in particular--Christianity. (I don't see them posting about, say, how ridiculous Shinto or Hinduism are, or even Scientology, with nearly the same regularity.) So, here is proof of exactly how old those arguments are, and how little effect they have had in all that time, along with one man's answers to them, the man, of course, being G K Chesterton.
Chesterton's answers are not my answers; I do not share his faith or any faith, nor am I interested in defending his views. I post them here for entertainment purposes only.
http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/books/Christianity_and_Rationalism.html
In the meantime, I have to get some of the stuff out of my head. In order to get rid of a thought I have to write it and let it out; otherwise it hangs around and gets in the way. And since I'm having to bite my metaphorical tongue more and more on this here internet, to avoid getting into "debates" that are actually arguments, it's a growing problem.
When secularists/rationalists/atheists/anti-religionists post on the net, they usually recycle one or more of a very few, very old arguments against--in particular--Christianity. (I don't see them posting about, say, how ridiculous Shinto or Hinduism are, or even Scientology, with nearly the same regularity.) So, here is proof of exactly how old those arguments are, and how little effect they have had in all that time, along with one man's answers to them, the man, of course, being G K Chesterton.
Chesterton's answers are not my answers; I do not share his faith or any faith, nor am I interested in defending his views. I post them here for entertainment purposes only.
http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/books/Christianity_and_Rationalism.html
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Date: 2014-09-08 11:48 am (UTC)But if you lived in India and spoke Hindi, the arguments you'd see against religion would be against Hinduism. It's a function of living in the West and speaking English that the arguments are against Christianity, which is the major religion. Plus there are a large number of sites dissing Scientology, maybe you haven't searched for them?
It can equally be said from the point of view of an atheist that the arguments I see being run in favour of (among other religions) Christianity are the same arguments re-worded as I've seen since I became an atheist and people (on, among other places alt.atheism) were trying to convince me that I was wrong to do so. Chesterton's is a nice redux of them, but they're not convincing.