After the Agora last Sunday, a friend came up to me and asked if I could discuss in the postmodernism workshop something that's bothering her lately...
"Imagine if you are born in a country where everybody is a creationist, you'd be conditioned to be a creationist too...
Or if you sit in a room full of Darwinist professors, you'd be brainwashed to believe in evolution..."
We are merely a product of our culture, upbringing or psychological make-up.
This is illustrated in movies like The Island and one of my personal favs, The Truman Show.
Without giving too much away, Greg Koukl gave an excellent response here:
You Are Christian Because You Are Born In US...
"Many dismiss Christianity by citing the cultural, emotional, psychological, or historical reasons people believe. Yet these tell you only about the Christian. They
tell nothing about the truth of Christianity.
• No one can refute an idea by showing – even correctly – the psychological or
cultural reasons someone believes it. This is an evasion – the genetic fallacy –
not an argument.
• There's a difference between what causes or motivates a person to believe and what justifies the belief. First you must show that a man is wrong before you start explaining why he is wrong.
• Christ may be a crutch, but crippled people need crutches. The real question is, “Can your crutch hold you?”
"Imagine if you are born in a country where everybody is a creationist, you'd be conditioned to be a creationist too...
Or if you sit in a room full of Darwinist professors, you'd be brainwashed to believe in evolution..."
We are merely a product of our culture, upbringing or psychological make-up.
This is illustrated in movies like The Island and one of my personal favs, The Truman Show.
Without giving too much away, Greg Koukl gave an excellent response here:
You Are Christian Because You Are Born In US...
"Many dismiss Christianity by citing the cultural, emotional, psychological, or historical reasons people believe. Yet these tell you only about the Christian. They
tell nothing about the truth of Christianity.
• No one can refute an idea by showing – even correctly – the psychological or
cultural reasons someone believes it. This is an evasion – the genetic fallacy –
not an argument.
• There's a difference between what causes or motivates a person to believe and what justifies the belief. First you must show that a man is wrong before you start explaining why he is wrong.
• Christ may be a crutch, but crippled people need crutches. The real question is, “Can your crutch hold you?”
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