Some day I am going write a short text on informal logic along the lines of Ray Perkins' excellent Logic and Mr. Limbaugh, except instead of using the illustrative sophistry of Mr. Limbaugh I will get all of my examples from conservative Christian apologists of the sort interviewed in Lee Strobel's incredibly dishonest The Case for Christ (I refuse to link to it). Back when the economy was good, and students had way more luxury to waste on stupidity, proselytizers in my intro classes used to give me the book.
In the meantime, I highly recommend Robert Price's The Case Against the Case for Christ. Price's command of New Testament scholarship and informal logic is formidable and a pleasure to read. If you read Price's book, you'll get a clear idea of how easy it would be to pen the kind of logic textbook I'm envisioning.
I must say, after sustained reading on this topic, one thing is very clear to me. Given the astounding amount of blanket dishonesty and unreason needed to sustain conservative apologetics by all of the big names at many of the relevant "Christian" universities (ones that discriminate merit scare quotes!), it is no accident that conservative Christians so often end up being such catastrophically bad people. As the Greeks say, a fish rots from the head down.*
*[Full disclosure: (1) I teach adult Sunday School in a Presbyterian church. None of the above is meant to be an indictment of Christianity. This should be clear at least to anyone who realizes that atheists like Price are often better Christians than those of us burdened with the supposedly relevant beliefs. (2) It's slightly hypocritical for me to inveigh against "bad people" in the way I do above, as my own Reformed tradition accepts as fundamental the depravity of pretty much everyone, including and especially oneself. This being said, not to notice that one's own fish is rotten is particularly odious in all sorts of ways.]
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