Posted: May 07, 2012 1:19 pm
The gazette of the Swedish-speaking diocese of the Finnish Lutheran church normally is a fairly inoffensive little, uh, gazette, except there's some occasional lunatics in the letters to the editor part.
Recently, though, the gazette ran a very fawning article on W.L. Craig, complete with claims like 'Dawkins does not dare to debate him'. I want to send a letter to the editor giving a less lopsided view of this idiot. However, I don't quite have the time to look up all the dumb stuff this idiot has said and done, and learning about philosophy-oriented things he may use does not really interest me.
Some clear fabrications/misrepresentations/misinterpretations/bullshit arguments of his along the lines of this could be helpful. Alas, the gazette limits letters to the editor to rather short things, so any thing along these lines will need to be short and concise.
Any help would be appreciated.
Regarding the gazette, it has the greatest circulation of any Swedish publication in Finland, reaching 110 000 households, 89% of the Swedish population. Mostly, dioceses pay for the subscriptions, although some non-members of the church also subscribe. Most public libraries also have it. Normally, it contains religion-related local news, Christianity-related global news, a sermon, some observations and reflections on things, reviews of Christian music, reviews of literature (not necessarily christian) and movies (though not action movies, normally), theatre, some personal profile of someone that's had some kind of impact on the religious scene in Finland, ... a fawning article on an apologist is an unusually strong thing for this newspaper.
Recently, though, the gazette ran a very fawning article on W.L. Craig, complete with claims like 'Dawkins does not dare to debate him'. I want to send a letter to the editor giving a less lopsided view of this idiot. However, I don't quite have the time to look up all the dumb stuff this idiot has said and done, and learning about philosophy-oriented things he may use does not really interest me.
Some clear fabrications/misrepresentations/misinterpretations/bullshit arguments of his along the lines of this could be helpful. Alas, the gazette limits letters to the editor to rather short things, so any thing along these lines will need to be short and concise.
Any help would be appreciated.
Regarding the gazette, it has the greatest circulation of any Swedish publication in Finland, reaching 110 000 households, 89% of the Swedish population. Mostly, dioceses pay for the subscriptions, although some non-members of the church also subscribe. Most public libraries also have it. Normally, it contains religion-related local news, Christianity-related global news, a sermon, some observations and reflections on things, reviews of Christian music, reviews of literature (not necessarily christian) and movies (though not action movies, normally), theatre, some personal profile of someone that's had some kind of impact on the religious scene in Finland, ... a fawning article on an apologist is an unusually strong thing for this newspaper.