How and When Should You Use Ridicule, If At All? It Depends on Your Goals
I think it’s self-defeating for philosophers who want to engage in genuine inquiry to use ridicule. If one’s primary goal is to be an apologist first and a philosopher second (such as William Lane Craig), then I think ridicule can change some minds while alienating others. (By mentioning his name, I’m not claiming that he … How and When Should You Use Ridicule, If At All? It Depends on Your Goals
If You Think Atheists Should Ridicule Theistic Beliefs, Read This
This is a paper I started writing almost ten years ago, but never finished. Atheistic Advocacy as a Risk Communication Problem Jeffery Jay Lowder Abstract. In this paper, I introduce a new way of thinking about atheistic advocacy. In an important sense, atheism is a risk. Therefore, attempts to argue either for the truth of … If You Think Atheists Should Ridicule Theistic Beliefs, Read This