Lee Strobel – The Case for Faith

A Christian friend lent me Lee Strobel’s The Case for Faith saying he found it “pretty convincing”.

Well, it wasn’t.

At all.

I’ve got pages and pages of notes and will try to post something here when I’m done organizing my thoughts.

In the meantime, all I can say is that if The Case for Faith is an example of Strobel’s “investigative journalism”, I’m really glad I haven’t been subjected to his blatant one-sided approach to researching a topic.

Awful. Just awful.

While you wait on bated breath for my review, you may want to check out The Case Against Faith. I’m sure the site will be much more comprehensive than anything I have to say. I think I’ll go browse it now, myself.

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August 19, 2009 · Filed Under Atheism, Religion

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6 Responses to “Lee Strobel – The Case for Faith”

  1. Joel on August 19th, 2009 at 10:29 pm

    I had the same experience with Mere Christianity.  Multiple people told me it was such a compelling read, and then I read it and found Lewis’s “arguments” ludicrous.

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  2. Henry on August 20th, 2009 at 6:05 pm

    I got about 20 pages into Strobel’s book before the circular reasoning made me dizzy. My biggest peeve with Strobel and Lewis (and numerous others) is that they use their claim to have once been an atheist to give their mindless arguments credibility. First, it doesn’t since a person’s predilictions have no bearing on whether a proposition is true or not; and second, they were not really atheists if they could be brought back to the woo woo camp with such drivel.

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  3. Jon on August 25th, 2009 at 8:58 am

    I have read both “The Case for Faith” and “The Case for Christ” by Lee Strobel, and found them to be two very different books.  I will look forward to hearing more of your thoughts on The Case for Faith.

    Henry – What do you mean when you say “they were not really atheists if they could be brought back to the woo woo camp with such drivel?”

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  4. milena on October 9th, 2009 at 6:09 pm

    Hey…. good evening.
    this discussion is very interesting.  but people that do some thinking, any kind of thinking, must have wondered at some point in their life…what will happen to me when i die… we humans have amazing qualities and talents, how can all that be gone to waste?  what was this life all about??  
    humans only use like 10% of the brain - and there have been amazing discoveries in medicine etc.  
       
    i would also like to know what do you mean when you say “they were not really atheists if they could be brought back to the woo woo camp with such drivel?”
    on another note, did you know that in Israel certain groups of people are preparing to build the 3rd temple?  right there where the mosque is now in place?? that is amazing. 
    they know that the time is coming and they are almost ready.
    i was just visited the museum this past year and actually saw all the articles being prepared….what do you think that means?
    i heard that Jesus will return when the 3rd temple is built.

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  5. MJ on October 13th, 2009 at 11:33 am

    Hi Milena,

    It’s actually a fallacy to state that humans use only 10% of their brain.  It’s not true.  That was a myth from way back that just kept spreading – kind of like the 8 glasses of water a day thing.   The key is to investigate these things and make sure that what we believe is actually reflected in facts as opposed to parroting what we hear.

    The thing about the Third temple being built, well historically there have been many end-of-times cults/beliefs – none have come true as of yet so there’s no reason to believe that the story that you’ve told us about will actually result in the end times. 
    And can you tell us which museum you attended – I’m curious to know whether it was the Smithsonian, Museum of Natural History or which Museum – mainly because not all Museums are created equal - I mean something art just because you hang it on the wall?

    MJ

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  6. Nick on October 14th, 2009 at 8:45 am

    Ha, by the things they say and  do, I’d be surprised if most people use more than 5% of their brains ;)
    But MJ, totally agree with you, half of these things just are good soundbites and are hard to disprove and so get spread around.  And I have certainly yet to hear about an apocalyptic prophecy that sounds anywhere near plausible, isn’t the next big hype/myth about December 2012 and a Mayan calendar? Already been debunked as wrong but still getting press.

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