You can lead Ray Comfort to contradiction…
A few weeks ago, Ray Comfort offered to send anyone who asked him a free copy of his book You can lead an atheist to evidence, but you can’t make him think, as well as The Atheist’s Bible. Well, not wanting to pass up an offer to get anything for free, I asked. Last week, the package arrive, but since I was then in the middle of Sam Harris’ The End of Faith, I didn’t have time to start reading it until now. Last night, I opened the book for the first time. Last night, after two sentences, I was already contemplating throwing it away.
But, just as Darrin Rasberry, Atheist told me in the foreword, I endured, if only to be able to honestly say that I’ve heard Ray’s argument and not dismissed it out of hand.
I will return with a more in-depth review of the book at a later time, but just to wet your appetite a little, here’s a little preview of what I suspect my review will mainly consist of.
Page 8:
There are some cultures in which people show so much contempt for a family member that has wronged them they actually deny his existence. [...] That’s what the professing atheist does with God, and his or her reason for doing so is moral. It’s not intellectual. It if was an intellectual issue there wouldn’t be any argument.
Page 35:
However, the reason your conscience has nothing to say about your atheism is that atheism is not a moral issue. It’s an intellectual issue.
It is truly a miracle that someone who can’t even remember what he himself wrote 27 pages ago, can still be trusted as authority when it comes to dismissing scientific evidence and rational thought.
Oh – You’re taking Ray out of context. I am sure that’s allegory, or symbolic, or representational of the truth in some fashion.
Seriously, Ray is either insane or an atheist in disguise. No one can be that dumb, can they?
I think his problem is mainly that he’s using “atheists” so broadly, it basically applies to every single person who isn’t himself. No wonder then he’ll start to confuse people with each other.