My point is this: without specifically addressing the issues raised in a knowledgeable way, which requires studying your opponent's position and beliefs with great care, there is no way to persuade others that your opponent is worthless.
Now there are very good reasons why many good people should not bother to address creationism in a serious fashion. But someone has to. And someone must study and address the incoherent and repellent theology of christianism in a direct way. You not only provide the media with compelling reasons to marginalize these genuinely marginal beliefs, but you also publicize alternative theologies that do not hold as their goal the establishment of an American theocracy. Furthermore, you shift the locus of dispute from a defensive fight on the worthiness of enlightenment values. Instead, by knowledgeably disputing christianist theology, you place christianists on the defensive, forcing them to defend their radical theocratic beliefs. Again, the audience we're trying to persuade is not christianists, but those who give them enough stature to advance their cause in the mass media.
That's what this blog will do.
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