In this excerpt from a talk at @CottonwoodCreekChurch, Tim Barnett shares how we can inoculate our youth by exposing them to challenges and supplying them with answers.
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Arming students with the christian truth is like declawing a cat.
This is confusing; if you "arm youth with the truth", they will stop believing in your religious faith. And I think Mr. Barnett knows that this is the case, because he immediately tells us that we need to teach the youths to defend whatever it is that he would have them believe in, which is where "apologetics" supposedly comes in.
To me, the fact that you need "apologetics", the fact that you need a dedicated craft to give a plausible defense of your beliefs, is evidence that those beliefs are irrational and not supported by sufficient objectively convincing evidence. Views that are rational and supported by sufficient objectively convincing evidence do not need any "apologetics". You just teach them once and then forget about them. There are no "X-ray apologetics", nor is there a need to "defend the truth" of the existence of Easter Island. You only need apologetics if you are short of evidence.
In this respect it is extremely significant that Mr. Barnett is implicitly admitting that indoctrination of children needs to be an integral part of his religion. He calls it "inoculation", thereby insinuating that ideas that do not align with his sect's beliefs are somehow equivalent to harmful pathogens, but what he means is "indoctrination", pure and simple. I understand that he wants his children to believe what he believes, and I understand that parents have the right and the duty to educate their children to be prepared for the wild wild world outside the family home, but knowingly and willingly recommending indoctrination as the way to achieve that is quite a different kettle of fish.
Hay Greg koukl what do you say to someone who says History is written by the winners the war and you can't know anything for sure and how do you stay so calm thank you for everything you do god bless you 🙏 ❤
How to train youth: Arm the youth with the Christian belief.
There fixed it for you.
The claims without evidence are beliefs not truths.