Christians Should Reject Christ Along with Thor and Hermes
Special pleading and the sophistry of Catholic apologetics
Brian Holdsworth is a Catholic apologist with 130k subscribers on YouTube. One of his videos criticizes what he calls “the worst atheist argument.”
You might be familiar with that so-called argument since it’s a slogan made popular by Richard Dawkins and Ricky Gervais. As Dawkins put it in The God Delusion, “We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
Holdsworth says this line is “quite clever since it brings the appearance of being logical.” Alas, he reminds his audience, “Rhetoric without sound logic is just sophistry.”
And Holdsworth goes on to pontificate about how “in a classical arts education, you had to learn logic or dialectic first before rhetoric. You had to have a proper understanding of what sound logic was before you applied persuasive speech to it. Otherwise, you would just become a sophist.” We abandoned that kind of education, which is why “Sophistry has such free rein over the popular conversations that are present in our culture these days.”
This is hilarious, of course, since as we’ll see presently, a Catholic has no business pretending to be a critical…
