From the comments at the link:
"Some of the Christian arguments do seem weak, yes. However, the fact that commenters, even here among the wise and good, misrepresent what is actually believed by Christians should give the undecided and the agnostic some pause. If Mere Christianity is so obviously wrong, why do its critics describe it so inaccurately? Wouldn't it be sufficient to criticise the real article? Do they not apprehend what is said? Are they intentionally lying? Is there a laziness in thought? I don't know, but in discussions such as this it seems the most obvious fact in evidence, whatever the explanation."
That was where Joseph Campbell really lost my respect. If he was going to be so inaccurate about the Christian "myths" in his own backyard, how could I trust what he said about myths from around the world?
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A boomer apologizes, albeit without much clarity.
"It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs," Jesus said; Matthew 15:26.
I recently understood that I am spending my life in rebuilding spiritual and practical foundations that had been foolishly undermined by previous generations.
Several months ago I was reading a nonfiction book by Christian author Paul Tournier, and made it about three-quarters of the way through before being drawn away to other things.
When I picked it up this last week and finished reading it, I found references to about a dozen Bible passages that had come up in my daily Bible readings in the interim, mostly obscure Old Testament personages with a variety of afflictions; Tournier was a Swiss doctor famous for connecting his Christianity with his medical practice.
I also read a Christian fiction book this last week: Deadline, by Randy Alcorn. One day, what I read in the book mirrored my morning Bible reading on that same day.
"A work of creation was three-fold, an earthly trinity to match the heavenly; the Creative Idea, timeless and passionate, which is the image of the Father; the Creative Energy, begotten of the idea and working in time, which is the image of the Word; the Creative Power, the meaning of the work and its response in the individual soul, which is the image of the indwelling Spirit."
-- P. D. James, summarizing Dorothy L. Sayers' description
