When I first read John Loftus’ book, Why I Rejected Christianity (Now Why I Became an Atheist), one of the things that stuck out was the Outsider Test for Faith: “Test your beliefs as if you were an outsider to the faith you are evaluating.” This isn’t a new idea, but I thought John ha [...]
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Interview with Luke about my book on the resurrection
Posted by Chris Hallquist on March 31, 2010
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Available as part of Luke’s Conversations from the Pale Blue Dot podcast series, over at his blog. It was fun doing the show. Luke also had nice things to say about me in his intro: The point is that Christian arguments are no better than these, and in fact the case for the resurrection is [...]
There is no Lee Strobel
Posted by Chris Hallquist on February 17, 2010
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Or rather, I am very skeptical that there is anyone who fits the images that Lee Strobel and people like him have created for themselves. Let me explain. Vic Reppert is fond of suggesting that while Christians may have emotional motivations for their beliefs, atheists do to. Repperts comments sometimes border on suggesting it’s dishonest [...]
Lee Strobel
Posted by Chris Hallquist on August 13, 2009
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A reader writes: Today I got to thinking: Why is it that people like Lee Strobel are so eager to believe Christianity? After all, from reading his books I’ve come to conclude that he must be somewhat dishonest with himself: He’s jumped to a conclusion, presumably because he wants to believe very badly. Why do [...]