A criticism of current Christian apologetics, mostly the US evangelical variety. Short form: it´s pseudo-intellectual cosplay mostly for those already saved. If taken seriously, it means that "having faith" is the same thing as "having the best arguments" (or, I suppose, "own" the atheists). In most cases, however, this kind of apologetics lead to a strange kind of anti-intellectualism: people whose faith is really non-rational believe that they are the rational guys precisely because they have faith!
The content-creator (an ex-evangelical) further charge apologists with overstating their credentials (his favorite apologist as an evangelical teenager was neither a doctor nor a *real* Oxford professor). They already know what to believe before they even start investigating the topics they are supposed to "prove". In the end, it all boils down to tribal loyalty with your own chosen faith group.
The content-creator, C J Cornthwaite, believes that Christianity is ultimately rooted in divine mystery and human community. Hence, it cannot be argued for by "rational argument" in the first place. Thus, his alternative doesn´t seem to be a more rigorously intellectual apologetic, but dispensing with apologetics (as usually understood) altogether in favor of (actual) faith.
I can hear both fundamentalists and atheists reeling.
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