Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Hey everyone, today I'm reviewing the Good, the Bad, and the Downright Ugly in Peter

Bagotians a Manual for Creating Atheists.

And I'm going to reveal how the author now thinks there's a bigger threat beyond religion.

Well before I share more about that, I just want to welcome you to the Council of Trend

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Also apologize and getting over a cold, which is why I might sound a little off in this

episode.

So I reviewed this book back in 2014, and I want to revisit it because the book does

have some good elements that I agree with when it comes to discussions between Christians

and atheists or discussions between anyone for that matter.

And that's the thing, this book is not about creating atheists, per se.

Bagotians say it's his goal this way.

The goal of this book is to create a generation of street epistemologists, people equipped with

an array of dialectical and clinical tools who actively go into the streets, the prisons,

the bars, the churches, the schools, and the community, into any and every place the

faithful reside and help them abandon their faith and embrace reason.

Epistemology is a discipline within philosophy that focuses on defining knowledge and figuring

out how we know what we know, rather than blindly shout a conclusion, like a street preacher,

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