How should we think through the different major religions of our time? Are they all the same? What are their differences? In this presentation, philosopher of religion, Dale Tuggy, works through key questions that can help us differentiate and distinguish religions from each other. In the second half of his talk, he invites the audience to diagnose various quasi-religious perspectives popular in our culture, before offering comments on each.
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Hello Sean, I enjoyed the apologetics discussions so far by Kenny and Dale. I think this is necessary for christians to be a least familiar with these tools as many live in and amongst, increasingly secular societies. People need to be reached using this approach as doctrinal matters for them are moot, considering many do not even believe in God to begin with, and have serious doubts in this regard due to the influence from the atheistic poster boys such as Richard Dawkins and the late Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Hawkins.
The atheistic arguments may on the surface appear sound and even logical, especially coming from what the world views as the most eminent and esteemed minds on the subject, but if you can see clearly through them and how fatally flawed and illogical their arguments are, christians can as you say “turn the tables” and help them to see that they are actually making a case for the existence of a God when discussing morality and objective truths!
I particularly liked the point that even though Hitler was considered by most to be horribly cruel and evil having all of the traits that God is falsely accused of, this is not evidence or proof that he did not exist.
Also with regards to all religions being the same there were some very nice and useful examples demonstrating that people who say this realise they do not really mean what they say, when presented with a simple comparison, eg, Satanism versus Catholicism!
Thanks for doing all the hard work for us all guys, I always feel a little guilty listening with my feet up on the desk. Always enjoy listening to the presentations and I thoroughly recommend this site to everyone I can as the premier site for theological educational excellence!
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Hello Sean, I enjoyed the apologetics discussions so far by Kenny and Dale. I think this is necessary for christians to be a least familiar with these tools as many live in and amongst, increasingly secular societies. People need to be reached using this approach as doctrinal matters for them are moot, considering many do not even believe in God to begin with, and have serious doubts in this regard due to the influence from the atheistic poster boys such as Richard Dawkins and the late Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Hawkins.
The atheistic arguments may on the surface appear sound and even logical, especially coming from what the world views as the most eminent and esteemed minds on the subject, but if you can see clearly through them and how fatally flawed and illogical their arguments are, christians can as you say “turn the tables” and help them to see that they are actually making a case for the existence of a God when discussing morality and objective truths!
I particularly liked the point that even though Hitler was considered by most to be horribly cruel and evil having all of the traits that God is falsely accused of, this is not evidence or proof that he did not exist.
Also with regards to all religions being the same there were some very nice and useful examples demonstrating that people who say this realise they do not really mean what they say, when presented with a simple comparison, eg, Satanism versus Catholicism!
Thanks for doing all the hard work for us all guys, I always feel a little guilty listening with my feet up on the desk. Always enjoy listening to the presentations and I thoroughly recommend this site to everyone I can as the premier site for theological educational excellence!