Terry Eagleton is interviewed on God, religion, and the new atheists, dances around practically every question he's asked, even something as simple as "do you pray?". I know, it's so rude and arrogant of we atheists to expect defenders of religion to be able to answer such things. And it's so convenient of them to criticize us for not being up all all the nuances of their arguments while they simultaneously refuse to give them to us.
The best summary was by one of PZ Myers' commenters, Paula Kirby:
'You don't know what I believe, and that makes you ignorant and bigoted. I don't know what I believe, and that makes me sophisticated.'
Hat Tip: PZ Myers
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"And it's so convenient of them to criticize us for not being up all all the nuances of their arguments while they simultaneously refuse to give them to us."
Really, you can read some of their books, not just listen to short interviews, and get those nuances you're so earnestly seeking.
Been, there done that. Read JP Moreland, William Lane Craig, Alvin Plantinga, CS Lewis, Josh McDowell and others I've since stopped putting forth the effort to remember. It's evasive intellectually offensive, question-begging pap. But by all means, if there's an argument you find especially compelling, make it here, and we'll see how it fares scrutiny.
One reason I don't blog so much about gods per say is because it became a bore of an issue for me a decade or so ago, having dismantled every argument I had come across (aside from some really arcane physics arguments that are rejected, as these things always are, by the overwhelming majority of the world's specialists in the area), and heard no new ones.
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