• Apologetics,  Atheism,  William Lane Craig

    Too Focused on Atheism #2

    It strikes me as problematic that so much effort goes into defeating something that most people don’t hold to (approximately 4% of Americans are self-describes atheists). William Lane Craig, for example, concerns himself with a strong defense of theism followed by trying to support claims of the divinity of Jesus Christ. What troubles me is that most of his work goes into the former project. In his popular apologetics book, On Guard, Craig devotes a chapter to religious pluralism (actually it is only really about soteriology) during which he recounts a telling story: I often speak at major Canadian universities on the existence of God. I typically present a cumulative case climaxing in Jesus’ resurrection  After one of my talks,…