you can get a jump start on the nuts and bolts<\/a>.\u00a0 McGrath is good, very good about breaking things down.\u00a0 Ehrman is good as well.\u00a0 Though at times he seems to exploit the ignorance of his audience in things biblical (like building his audience up to the *shocking* revelation that John 8\u00a0isn\u2019t in most early manuscripts \u2013 something just about every Bible has in a footnote), I still admire him and his quest for truth.\u00a0 Raised in a hardcore fundamentalist camp with a\u00a0radically literalistic take on Scripture and the Faith, he bolted when he realized the evidence wasn\u2019t there.\u00a0 No it isn\u2019t.\u00a0 And it\u2019s not shocking that when I read testimonials from atheists and non-believers who came from Christianity, they tend to come from three camps: Fundamentalists who\u00a0 demand a massive conspiracy of everything learned; Liberal and left leaning traditions who, as Sam Harris rightly points out, are almost 9\/10 there anyway; and cradle Christians who simply took things for granted without ever giving them much thought (Catholics rating very high in this category).\u00a0 But in any event, Ehrman at least continues to grapple with the facts and tries to draw his conclusions accordingly, putting him head and shoulders above so much of what passes for modern atheism today.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So you can get a jump start on the nuts and bolts.\u00a0 McGrath is good, very good about breaking things down.\u00a0 Ehrman is good as well.\u00a0 Though at times he seems to exploit the ignorance of his audience in things biblical (like building his audience up to the *shocking* revelation that John 8\u00a0isn\u2019t in most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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