hairyfigment comments on Rationality Quotes May 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hairyfigment 04 May 2012 07:03:39PM 1 point [-]

This struck me as an odd position for a Christian apologist. I know that if I didn't see us all as idiots, I might think we all deserved to die -- oh, wait.

Comment author: smijer 05 May 2012 06:18:47PM 0 points [-]

I'm not sure Chesterson deserves the epithet of apologist. Christian yes... evangelist, of a sort. I see him as a cut above the apologist class of Christian commentators.

Comment author: hairyfigment 06 May 2012 10:34:32PM 0 points [-]

I don't know that "apologist" counts as a natural class, but he definitely produced Christian apologetics. He may have preferred to call them 'refutations' of non-Christian or atheist doctrines.