#apologetics

Before I met the Jesuits, I’d never encountered another group who thought that intellect and arrogance were treasures beyond price and necessities in waging wars against blasphemers, heretics. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#argument #arrogance #intelligence #intelligence

I think we should stop treating ["God works in mysterious ways"] as any kind of wisdom and recognize it as the transparently defensive propaganda that it is. A positive response might be, "Oh good! I love a mystery. Let's see if we can solve this one, too. Do you have any ideas? ↗

— Daniel C. Dennett

#philosophy #theology #love

The Bible says that the earth is immovable. It cannot be moved. So now is your chance to prove your point. Run outside and move the earth. Perhaps you and your friends could jump on it, or find a rocky outcrop and push it together. Maybe after that little experiment you will concede that the earth is immovable. ↗

— Ray Comfort

#bible #geocentrism #experience

The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe; the theist believes a 'who' created the universe. ↗

— Criss Jami

#atheism #atheist #beginning #belief #cause

Too many in the Church today are likes babies in the nursery,they put everything in their mouth. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#christian #church #john-paul-warren #leadership #pastor-john-paul-warren

In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic. ↗

— J.D. Greear

#love #skepticism #age

The longest way round is the shortest way home. ↗

— Apologetics Press

#home

I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime? ↗

— Criss Jami

#apologetics #atrocities #belief #bias #biases

Theology isn't what drove them to their...theology." author writes on dealing with the embittering experience of those who protect a wounded place with abstract arguments. ↗

— Andy Stanley

#bitterness #theology #experience

If we require some kind of sign, or "proof," for our belief in God, then we believe, or place our tust, not in God but in the sign or proof. ↗

— Robert L. Short

#faith #god #proof #faith