{"id":21319,"date":"2026-07-13T06:05:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T10:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=21319"},"modified":"2026-07-13T06:17:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T10:17:37","slug":"journal-of-the-week-124","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=21319","title":{"rendered":"Journal of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>7\/13\/2026 Monday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How to fail in apologetics: Frank Turek did it again in his rationalist vs. rationalist. His favorite line of argument: <em>\"<strong>If Christianity is true, would you believe it<\/strong>...\" This is such a lame line, it's like asking \"<strong>If God commands you to rape women, would you obey...<\/strong>\"<\/em> Where Turek fail here is defining what truth and God are with the atheist. His only conclusion for her is that she will go to hell (no different than Fundamentalists' argument) by his \"logic\". Also notice that <strong>Turek's incentive for salvation is really \"going to Heaven\" instead of reconciliation with God (i.e. not Gospel centered).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Heaven? No Thanks...&quot; Atheist Student Challenges Frank\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MbIg9slQwEo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7\/13\/2026 Monday How to fail in apologetics: Frank Turek did it again in his rationalist vs. rationalist. His favorite line of argument: \"If Christianity is true, would you believe it...\" This is such a lame line, it's like asking \"If &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=21319\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21319"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21323,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21319\/revisions\/21323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}