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Tu Quoque Apologetics

I don’t think that philosophical defenders of theism could ply their trade without employing tu quoque arguments. The use of this device in defense of theistic doctrine goes back at least to Bishop ... read more

Reason's Anemic Response To The Ron Paul Newsletters

This post is representative. It's all spin, apologetics, feigned credulity, tu quoque, and ipse dixit. I think Paul's prone to nutty conspiracy theories, but I don't think he's a racist, at least not ... read more

It’s our fault the young are leaving

For the past 50 years or so, Christian thinkers have largely abandoned the art of apologetics and have failed (here I offer ... But it is altogether vulnerable to a tu quoque (you do the same thing) ... read more

The Evangelical Advantage

This is not generally a problem for Evangelicals. I eagerly await your comments, but I’m not going to publish comments that are crude tu quoque remarks. There is no Christian church in America that ... read more

Neither Stalin nor Mussolini

I am told this is ‘whataboutery’ , whatever that is. Well, if it is, then ‘whataboutery’ is a very powerful argument, just as ‘Tu quoque’ (‘You did it too’) has always been. If you claim to act out of ... read more

Apologetics: Preaching to the Choir

Apologetics isn’t for the lost ... Whenever anyone on the outside suggests that, some kind of tu quoque argument always rears its head. But this is a diversionary tactic. The church is supposed to be ... read more

The Empirical Stance vs. The Critical Attitude

The consequence of denying this, he thinks, is an opening of the floodgates to irrationalism: if to rely on reasoned argument in decision-making is fundamentally an act of faith, then there is a tu ... read more

David Freedman responds to criticism of his CAM apologia

Which one applies to you, would you say? At the risk of a tu quoque argument, I can't help but ask: Which one applies to Freedman, I wonder? He's also got it wrong. I've said time and time and time ... read more

4 Categories of Castro Apologetics, and the Anti-Individualism That Knits Them Together

This is, in the final analysis, what all these categories of apologetics have in common—the euphemism, the whataboutism, the juvenilia, the outsourcing of judgment to celebrities: They all gloss over ... read more

The Nazism Of Narnia

The longtime best-selling book of Christian apologetics—C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity—calls for religious nationalism (“all economists and statesmen should be Christians”) and argues that God wants ... read more

Jerry Brown, Climate Change Prophet of Doom

Brown used words more reminiscent of Old Testament warnings than New Testament apologetics: The Earth may have already gone past the "tipping point" where the climate is changing too rapidly to ... read more

Advocates advocate against advocacy

The advocates of accommodationism and apologetics at Biologos have a new article up claiming that scientists ought not to advocate for science — we're supposed to emphasize uncertainty. That's lame; ... read more