Pro-later-today-ination
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