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I've been waiting on this tip, mainly because this tip can hearken back to so many others. Nearly every professional apologist I'm aware of makes the mistakes I've identified... often.
Most of the scripts for how conversations are supposed to go can be traced back to specific apologists.
If your script starts out with asking if it's possible for everything one thinks one knows to be wrong, that's probably traceable to Eric Hovind or Sye Ten Brugencate. If you have a plan in mind whereby you convince someone that they have sinned and, therefor, should become Christians, that's traceable to Ray Comfort's "Way of the Master".
Some common misunderstandings are either traceable to or reinforced by many a professional apologist. If you believe that atheists can't have morality, many an apologist has repeated that same belief. If you believe that Thomas Jefferson intended the 1st Amendment to be a "1-way wall of separation between church and state" that is traceable to David Barton.
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Most of the scripts for how conversations are supposed to go can be traced back to specific apologists.
If your script starts out with asking if it's possible for everything one thinks one knows to be wrong, that's probably traceable to Eric Hovind or Sye Ten Brugencate. If you have a plan in mind whereby you convince someone that they have sinned and, therefor, should become Christians, that's traceable to Ray Comfort's "Way of the Master".
Some common misunderstandings are either traceable to or reinforced by many a professional apologist. If you believe that atheists can't have morality, many an apologist has repeated that same belief. If you believe that Thomas Jefferson intended the 1st Amendment to be a "1-way wall of separation between church and state" that is traceable to David Barton.
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