I have blasted Turek's reasoning to bits: He has titled his book "Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case". So I titled my rebuttal article "Stealing from Sense: Why Frank Turek Needs Atheism To Sell Books"
https://turchisrong.blogspot.com/2018/09/stealing-from-sense-why-frankn-turek.html
When Turek is asked why the bible has God commanding his people to slaughter the Canaanite children without mercy, he tries to make this divine atrocity appear more morally justified in the eyes of modern western democratic Americans by saying the Canaanites were horifically immoral , to the point of burning their children to death.
Yes, Dr. Turek, burning a child alive is about as horrifically evil as one can get. BUT...for several years I have publicly accused Turek of LYING about this, because
a) none of the ancient historical sources which report on Canaanite child sacrifice specify that the kids were still alive when placed in the fire , thus Turek is mistaking his own faulty subjective inference for actual historical data, and
b) at least one of the ancient historical sources telling us about Canaanite child-sacrifice explicitly state that the child was killed before being placed in the fire. My article is entitled "Frank Turek's dishonesty concerning pagan child sacrifices"
https://turchisrong.blogspot.com/2017/10/frank-tureks-dishonesty-concerning.html
I've also challenged the popular notion held by Turek, Clay Jones and other apologists that the Canaanites engaged in bestiality. See the above article. See my more direct challenge to Clay Jones here:
https://turchisrong.blogspot.com/2017/10/apologist-clay-jones-fails-to-morally.html
If there is no evidence to support Turek's contention that the Canaanites used fire to kill children and no evidence that Canaanites engaged in bestiality any nore than any other pagan nation, then Turek cannot justify the bible's requirement that the Hebrews treat the Canaanites more harshly than they treated other pagan nations.
Turek has known for years about these challenges of mine, but for whatever reason, he refuses to respond in any manner, and he refuses to debate me.
So quit telling yourself that he is a "great apologist". I welcome any Turek-supporter or Christian here to hit me with their most powerful arguments on any bible-topic. Lord knows Turek won't do it, so maybe one of his admirers can do it.
I'm also the first atheist to review Lydia McGrew's new book "The Eye of the Beholder: The Gospel of John as Historical Reportage" (Deward, 2021). My rebuttal-review hit Lydia from an angle she never expected, and I prove all she ended up doing was support the skeptical contention that the biblical promises of divine guidance for authentically born-again Christians, are false. Your purely naturalistic smarts are the only thing in existence that has any potetntial to protect you from misleading other Christians.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-eye-of-the-beholder-lydia-mcgrew/1138856063
You might say that review proved to be most embarassing to Mrs. McGrew, because she touts herself as a christian philosopher who specializes in epistemology. If anybody should have been on the lookout for where her arguments were leading, it was her. Yet she appears not to have noticed how her own logic in that book powerfully supports the skeptical thesis that says biblical promises of divine help are nothing but hot air.
Christian apologists are constantly raving about Dr. Craig Keener's two-volume "Miracles:
The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts" (Baker Academic, 2011) as if it is supposed to be a "game-changer" boosting the persuasiveness of Christianity by several orders of magnitude. But for years I've had posted at my blog a direct challenge to Keener (which I had sent to his email to make sure he couldn't later pretend to have overlooked it) to provide me with the evidence supporting the one modern-day miracle which he thinks is the most impervious to falsification. Not only does Keener speak Greek, he's also fluent in cricket-chirps:
https://turchisrong.blogspot.com/2017/12/my-questions-to-dr-craig-keener.html
I also take "triablogue" to task at my blog, and yes, they too get around my rebuttals by simply ignoring me. Apostle Paul prohibited word-wrangling (2nd Timothy 2:14) and the bible presumes the use of "many words" will surely lead to transgression (Proverbs 10:19), and few modern Christians violate this biblical admonition more than Triablogue's Jason Engwer, with his out-of-control obsessively compulsive need to fill up the universe with all of the atheism-rebuttals he thinks lurk within the Enfield Poltergeist scam. If you thought Bill Clinton's "That depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is..." was the best example of absurd trifling, then apparently you know nothing about Jason Engwer or Triablogue.
So please understand: if you think Christian apologetics causes atheists to piss themselves with worry about being judged by some 'god' in some afterlife, it's probably because you are refusing to take the pills your psychiatrist prescribed. Are you going to follow your doctor's orders...or shall I call 911?
As you can see, the bible at John 3:20 proves to be correct: whenever Christians come around providing arguments for God and Jesus, the atheists become mysteriously paralyzed from doing anything more than turning away, plugging their ears, closing their eyes, jumping up and down and screaming to themselves "I won't come to the light lest my evil deeds be exposed" (John 3:20) and "let the rocks and trees fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne..." (Rev. 6:16). LOL
