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Reasonable Faith Podcast

Don't Read That Book!

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Christianity

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

An atheist author wonders why Dr. Craig advises someone against reading atheist material.

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0:00.0

We don't need no education.

0:07.0

We don't need no thoughts control.

0:14.0

Dr Craig, an atheist blogger seems a little puzzled and perhaps even a little myth

0:20.0

that you told someone not to read his book.

0:23.0

This blogger David McAfee from the No Sacred Cows blog

0:28.0

is referring to a question of the week that you presented.

0:31.0

The question of the week is your response to a

0:33.8

doubting Christian who had read David's book entitled Disproving Christianity.

0:39.6

Let me quote this from the blog. It all started in 2013 when a Christian read my book

0:45.2

Disproving Christianity and listened to other secular works. The believer said they

0:50.5

want to believe in God but they were having trouble retaining their

0:54.6

faith after being exposed to secular materials. They pleaded with Craig asking

0:59.8

for suggestions and saying, I want to believe in God. He then quotes from the

1:04.0

question of the week bill and then he says Craig's response left a lot to be

1:09.6

desired. He starts off with a long-winded story and then explains that the believer who wrote him for help was not properly equipped to handle arguments found within the anti-Christian material.

1:22.0

So right from the start, Bill, you're being

1:24.9

taken a task here for squelching information. Right. Stifling inquiry. Yes.

1:30.2

Not being open-minded, and so forth.

1:34.0

Okay.

1:35.0

When in fact what I'm doing here is giving pastoral advice

1:40.0

to a young Christian who was obviously ill-informed about the rational foundations for

1:49.1

Christianity and therefore easily shaken and who was imbibing all of this infidel material on the

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