Sunny Days in Heaven
Spiritual/Political/Philosophical Blog on the Nature of Truth and Falsehood and Heaven


Tuesday, November 04, 2003  

You never know what you'll find

I once came across a web site to help atheists argue against Christians, and other religions in my travels. That's not unusual. Christians have sites, too, on how to argue with atheists.

What caught my eye was that the principle purpose of this site was to teach people how to be trolls. That is, to argue in a way to infuriate an opponent; and not in a way to honestly refute or engage.

One piece if advice in the list of arguments to make or avoid was to avoid facing the question of how you can get something from nothing as I said in the post below.

The primary advice to the atheist was for him to change the subject, shift the ground, deny the question, and insult the theist in order to make him lose his temper.

I also saw a book in a store's religious section for atheist arguments and gave similar advice about not answering basic questions on truth, logic, and being.

posted by Mark Butterworth | 10:40 PM |

links
archives