Why do I listen to "Unchained Radio"

Yes, I am a "narrow mind addict". I listen to Gene Cook's show "the narrow mind" on Unchained Radio

But why, I hear you yell, it's a Christian radio show??

Well, basically, I listen to Gene Cook for the same reason I listen to Mysterious Universe - not because I believe half a percent of what is presented, but because I find it so extremely entertaining to see how far people can delude themselves.

Perhaps I'm just easily amused? I admit to being addicted to podcasting in general, but it's difficult to find truly entertaining content. I find blatant delusion entertaining - so sue me ;)

Gene has a particular amusing segment on tuesdays called "Covenant Theology" (whatever that means). It's a couple of guys arguing - vehemently - insane minutiae of the Bible, and it reminds me the fervor with which some geeks fight over if the Enterprise D's phaser would blow up the Death Star or not.... I just shake my head about the level of emotion discussion of obvious fiction can sustain!

Another show that used to be fun is his "Atheistic Wednesday". Gene used to have Atheist callers, but I guessed he scared them off... of course, not because he has an actual argument, although he seems to think so (he had a smug comment in his last show about why Atheists no longer "dare" to call in, insinuating that he had somehow out-argued them).


The reality is that Gene actually doesn't have any argument at all. He is a presuppositionalist.

For those not "into" the whole thing: "Pressupositionalism" isn't an argument, it's an apologetic method. Gene even admits this, point blank. To make a long long story short, presuppositionalism is a complicated shell game of circular reasoning, shift-the-blame tactics, and other nifty little "tricks" that makes the unprepared atheist "appear" to lose face (but only if you don't see through the blatnatly transparent "argument" itself).

Presuppositionalism is really a fancy way of holding your hands to your ears and saying "la la la, not listening", but with a lot more words, but a lot less substance.

Gene even had a 7-part "exposé" of presuppositionalism, which I think was a big mistake (from his point of view). Before we all suspected pressupositionalism was totally vacuous - now we know it is totally vacuous.

But I like Gene. I think he is sincere, and his heart is basically in the right place. He is simply not intelligent enough, philosophically sophisticated enough, or cynical enough to see through the blatant silliness of what he believes.

He has some friends, though, which are a pretty nasty bunch. His old moderator "TreyFrog" (from the time he used to have a forum) explicitly said he though "heretics should be killed".

Other "friends" of his are more philosophically sophisticated than Gene, but much less intellectually honest, just parroting the presuppositional shell-game retoric with razor precision, without actually presenting any arguments of any kind.


I've advocated multiple time to be a guest on his "Atheistic Wednesday" but never received a reply on the subject. We'll see. This coming Wednesday I will actually have time, but we'll see what happens.

Anyhow, Gene recently dubbed me "narrow mind addict of the week", which is fun, but smells like a sign of desperation, if he has to dub his atheist listeners as the top addict... ;)

/Z

Gene Is Teh Funny

LOL

Gene made me "Narrow Mind Addict of the Week" even though I didn't have time to write my Narrow Mind post on my blog yet.

Getting desperate there, Gene? ;)

Time permitting, I'll actually post something, but I'm a busy guy. Real world stuff, y'know.

/Z