It would be easy enough to dismiss him as not representative of mainstream Christian “thinking”. His views do not make him an outlier. I have debated many people with similar views and similar misconceptions about atheists.
Many, like him, have no real understanding of what atheism means. The vast majority of them have assumed it is the denial of the existence of their god. Over this weekend I debated one of them who did not know that moonlight was actually the reflection of the light from the Sun. He was not trying to tell me I was wrong, he just did not know. I wondered to myself if he had ever heard of Bill O’Reilly.
But this is what you get when you learn Science in lessons derived from the writings in “the goat herders guide to the galaxy” and of marauding desert tribes from over 2000 years ago. FFS. Yet they are great at pretending to know things they cannot possibly know.
Priests like the guy in the article will continue to spew their rhetoric to the applause of morons so long as they remain stuck in the 15th century.
Sometimes I do find articles by more intellectually sophisticated apologists but they are few and far between. It is good to be able to dissect the weaker arguments as they are quite common and often the more educated ones have built their own arguments on the failed and debunked framework of the weaker ones.
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