Faceplant of the Day - Debunking Christianity: William Lane Craig, The Last Great Christian Apologist We'll Ever See!

First and foremost:  Dr William Lane Craig not the last Christian Defender and he most definitely not the only one! Defeating Dr Craig does not defeat Christianity by a long shot. The following video, pointed to by John Loftus, attempts to point to Dr William Lane Craig as making  blunders in his response to the massacre of children and their teachers in Conneticut on December 14, 2012.


The Video's author attempts to exploit one of Craig's weaknesses: Theodicy.  However the video shows that atheism has no answer at all. I don't fully agree with Dr Craig's answer to the question raised in this video: Why do such evil things happen?

The shooting on December 14, 2012 is dissimilar with Herod's killing of Children after Jesus' birth.  Look at it. Herod only killed boys in Bethlehem under 2 years of age and we are not talking about thousands or millions of lives. Bethlehem was not a huge place there would not have been that many children there. Some folks think that other historians would have mentions it, but I doubt that a few boys in Bethlehem being killed by Herod would have raised must attention - awful that is. I doubt that there would have even been as many as 20 children having been killed. Does that mean that Herod's actions weren't that bad? No! It explains why there was not more attention or anger raised up over this.  It is also completely consistent with Herod's character.

So could God have worked this out without a single life of a baby being lost? Yes! Could God had prevented the terrible tragedy on December 14, 2012? Yes! I don't know why. I agree that it doesn't make sense to us that it would be to remind us what Herod did, but that that doesn't mean that there is no God or that the Bible is in error.  I don't know how God is going to turn that into a blessing. What I do know is that it's best to stick to Jesus' answer to such a question.

Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. ² Jesus answered, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way? ³ I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish. ⁴ Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? ⁵ I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.” - Luke 13:1-5

Debunking Christianity: William Lane Craig, The Last Great Christian Apologist We'll Ever See!