Paul Copan is Professor and Pledger Family Chair of Philosophy and Ethics at Palm Beach Atlantic University.  He has a Ph. D. in philosophy from Marquette University and is author of  several books including “When God Goes to Starbucks: A Guide to Everyday Apologetics” (Baker).  Paul is the current president of the Evangelical Philosophical Society.  Find out more about Paul and his books HERE.

 

  “That’s Just Your Opinion”—Or Is It?

Have you ever tried to explain reasons for taking the Christian faith seriously, only to get shot down with the exasperating comeback, “Well, that’s just your opinion!”?  You’re left scratching your head, wondering how someone could slam the door on such eloquence and brilliance!

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Christians want to torture people. Well, maybe they don’t want to ACTUALLY torture people, they just want other people to torture people. More than any other group in a recent survey.

 

This all started when I was reading about the remarkable series of events that transpired in the Bush White House, as the President and his leaders debated how to continue a programmatic approach for torture. Reading through the articles, it occurred to me that one of the primary groups to support Bush’s second term were evangelical Christians. I looked it up, just to be sure, and found a Pew poll that confirmed my assumption. After Bush’s second election, Pew reported that “Bush received 78% of the vote among white evangelicals, up 10% from 2000.”

 

So I’m thinking, “I bet those people sure feel bad today!” Bet they quietly slipped into their two car garages, leaned over the back of their SUV, and shaved off the blue and white Bush/Cheney bumper stickers, carefully placing all the sticky evidence into a black bag. No Christian would ever support torture. No way.

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