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Reasonable Faith Podcast

Quarterback Aaron Rodgers Doubts His Faith

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Christianity, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

NFL Quarterback Aaron Rodgers questions Christianity on a recent podcast. Dr. Craig offers some help.

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0:00.0

Dr Craig a lot of football fans were upset with Aaron Rogers, Grebeck Packers quarterback,

0:15.3

All-ranked good guy who seems to be distancing himself from Christianity and he's

0:20.4

questioning the morality of God who would send people to hell.

0:25.0

This has made quite an impact, I think.

0:27.6

He's dating another celebrity, Danica Patrick, the race car driver.

0:32.0

She has her own podcast and she interviews him as the

0:35.8

celebrity that he is and also as her boyfriend. He called it religious

0:39.9

superstition. Could be a crutch and adding that Christianity is something that people

0:45.8

have to have to make themselves feel better.

0:49.2

I said several things and we'll listen to a couple of clips here.

0:51.8

Okay, this is really, really unfortunate.

0:56.2

Jan was raised in Wisconsin and Minnesota, and so we're big Green Bay fans. She always wears her Green Bay sweatshirt

1:05.6

when we watch them on television and we're rooting for the Packers. And so it's so

1:11.7

sad to see Roger saying these sorts of things that I think reflect a real lack of understanding

1:19.2

about Christianity. Certainly religious superstition can be a crutch as he says. It can be something

1:28.4

that people have to have to make themselves feel better but that doesn't mean that it must be that or that it is properly that.

1:36.0

There can also be people who believe in Christianity because they think it is objectively true and have good reasons for believing it to be true,

1:47.0

who are healthy, psychologically well-balanced people that don't need a crutch, but they believe that God exists

1:56.5

and has revealed himself in Jesus of Nazareth.

2:00.8

And I wish that Aaron Rogers would look into some of the objective evidence for the

2:08.3

truth of Christian Theism. He's obviously reacting here against something in his background. I don't know what, but it's clear

2:19.2

that he has deep misimpressions of what Christian faith really is.

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