Someone could call, I suppose, but these types are usually so smug and arrogant, that I doubt if it would make much difference. Better to let it die a natural death.
opcorn:Yeah I imagine you could have Aquinas-level knowledge and they would probably just yell over the top of you. Shows with a specific agenda aren’t going to let anyone interfere with that.
Not any different than a catholic show with a specific agenda allowing anyone to interfere with their story line.
In spite of what they say the vast majority of atheists who find their way to Christianity do not do so through philosophical reasoning. Rather, there are more than likely personal reasons which turn their attention to God. We do philosophy merely to show that the existence of God is indeed open to unaided reason, as the Church has always taught. But the Church realizes that few people can understand these reasons without the aid of God’s grace and without a good deal of intellectual effort. Indeed, this way to God would seem to be difficult to the vast majority and that is why we have Divine Revelation and the Church.
) is angry, arrogant or anything. He as a person lost the faith, as you know, and now works like a semi-fifth horseman. I have to say that the callers most of the time adress the issue the wrong way, either by having poor knowledge, either by wanting to knock the host down, with a rather poor agument (cf. the famous video "If God doesn’t exist, who wrote the BIble? with the revealing “think about it”), and so on. Matt is intelligent, he just didn’t find the Truth. Arrogance…I have seen pretention on both sides. And dialogue is almost impossible.Very true. I find that they make me believe and love my faith more, the exact opposite of what they want, I guess
Perhaps we should get one of the Apologists to call in then
My mistake. Even if it is their fans it is still not a charitable way.
I highly doubt he was generalizing. I’ve seen some of his work and he (the bald guy) seems very arrogant at first. However, I watched him debate this Eastern Orthodox guy and he (bald guy) finally started to settle down and started to use his mind. However, he would not let the other guy get a sufficient response toward the end of the video so he could not refute the claim properly (mostly by interupting him a good bit once he realized this guy was smart). Now, the reason why I would like a good apologist to please debate with this guy (even if it hopeless) is to simply show that Catholics do not drive people to Catholicism with “fallacies” as this one atheist I’m debating has stated. Heck, even showing that Catholics are not “crazy fundamentalists” would give a few “new atheists” a slap in the face and may rethink their view on Christians and even possibly Christianity as a whole.