Bill you've talked about exaggerated claims in the past you said you, you know, don't, don't overstate the case. You don't have to do that.

Just give the facts, don't make exaggerated claims. It's one of the earliest things I remember you're

saying before you and I had a chance to meet.

Well, this atheist has said the same thing in a blog, it's a humanist blog.

Dr. J.H. McKennaah in the Humanist Plus blog says many a pastor has made many a

humanist

due to poisoning so to, their parishioners with exaggerated claims that turn out to be problematic.

He starts out...

A number of humanists and agnostics and atheists traced the origin of their religious skepticism

to an overreaching pastor who made outsized claims for the Bible to Christianity.

Exaggerated claims, once discovered as so,

can produce a chink in the armor of faith,

a chink that the arrow of inquiry may pierce, inserting doubt where once there was certainty.

Any thoughts on that opening, Salvo?

Well, it is an interesting point.

When I talked about not making exaggerated claims I was speaking

about apologetic modesty that is to say don't try to prove too much because if you set the bar that high you're probably not

going to reach it and therefore it will look as though your claims are false. So if you say

things like there's more evidence for Jesus Christ

than that Julius Caesar ever existed, such a claim is so extravagant that if you fail to meet it, then it will look as though you have

failed in your effort to defend the historicity of Christ.

Where on the other hand, if you were to say something like the Gospels appear to be

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