The other day my mom linked me an atheists vs. Christians debate involving the famous Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron. Cameron mentions how he was an atheist come Christian, which is hard for me to believe but I'll get to that later.
The debate was over the proof for God's existence without faith or the Bible. I was well pleased when Cameron said that we can prove Gods existence with total certainty.
Comfort went first with his intro, and basically said that God's existence can be proven by the majesty and wonder of the world around us. Unfortunately he almost immediately broke the rules and talked about the Bible.
The atheists finally got a voice and they had plenty to say in response.
The debate eventually came down to a debate over evolution which was fairly decent.
Overall the debate mostly sucked. The atheists were too cynical and not very open to any of the logic that the Christians did offer. But most of all, Cameron and Comfort absolutely failed the debate for their inability to be attached to the debate and understand the atheists questions.
This has basically brought me back to what I said in my previous note about embarrassing representation of the Catholic Church.
Cameron and Comfort couldn't help but resort to disconnected, vague preaching when they replied to either the moderator or the atheists, like how most people seem to evangelize nowadays unfortunately.
But it all ended for me when it came to a debate about the historical existence of Jesus. The atheists simply presented an evidential historical case for why Jesus probably didn't exist, saying how there are multiple sources that go against the few biblical sources. However, immediately following that, Ray Comfort simply responds by nothing short of PREACHING! He simply reiterated that the Bible was the living word of God, therefore outweighing the other sources. I don't know if they actually did anything better than that afterwards because i was so infuriated that i quit watching the debate.
Kirk Cameron wasn't really any better. Like i said earlier, i figured him being an ex-atheist would keep him from vague preaching and using logic that the atheists, or any logical person for that matter, could relate to. But i was mistaken.
I am just beyond done with the intellectual incompetence of people when there is plenty out there to learn from.
Basically, if i were the government and each aspect of the Church were a program, i would fund apologetics like a nation afraid for it's security ought to fund its military.
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