I often encounter a popular idea that deconverts from a particular belief community provide a uniquely authoritative insight into that community and its practices and thus a uniquely authoritative basis to reject it. The idea is like this: “Oh, you want to live in New York? It’s a hellhole, believe me: I lived in Brooklyn […]
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Defending the Apologetics Company Man?
Apparently Paul Manata didn’t like my complaint about apologists suffering from the company man image. However, I’m still scratcing my head as to what he’s complaining about. To begin with he writes: “Again, **given the def. Dr. Rauser provided,** it doesn’t appear to be **inherently** problematic to be a company man.” Really? I first referenced a […]
