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"We don't live in a vacuum and some of us are familiar with at least one of the men whose student he claims to have been. Dr. William Lane Craig is pretty well known in Christian circles....he is an avid debater and prolific author. Dr. Craig is very up front about his education and journey, so some of us are even familiar with that aspect of the equation and when Loftus alludes to the nameless, faceless Profs he has dealt with, my mind jumps to Dr. William Lane Craig" Really, a good point. The article says that one with faith uses everything but reason and logic to define and defend their beliefs and faith. "Believers" deny, avoid, use "special pleadings" and have all sorts of personal motivations and weaknesses driving them, per JL. Atheists such as JL - none of that. According to JL, it's all reason, logic, facts just the facts, blue sky all the way. It's a case made that conveniently drops any personal motivations from one side and loads the other side up to sky with them. How convenient. I suspect that JL has turned to demeaning the opposing side simply because he's come to an irreconcilable difference in belief, in personal life, professionally, perhaps in all. Now he demeans the other side and attempts to reduce it to lesser force, marginalizing it's validity and thereby moving it off the table. But for JL I think it's clear he's not going to the next course, he's going to keep picking at that plate - and likely for both personal and professional reasons. The ideas and issues are not served by that kind of approach, from either side. One could say that "most former graduates of theological institutions are conflicted and unreasonable". That wouldn't be true though. It would conveniently disparage them however and reduce their value towards any discussion. Much as he does in his article to those "believers" he talks about.

Being in-residence is akin to being incarcerated. We were told everything - where to be, how to dress, we had no choice in our food, told what to read, what to listen to, when we could leave grounds (with the first 8 weeks or so being locked down entirely. Afterwards, we could only leave grounds for a couple hours on Saturdays,) had to ask permission to see a doctor and you could expect to be denied, were not allowed to goto the dentist except on relocation, had to check a list that we flossed daily, had to check a list that we exercised, had to check a list that we were at the STS phone hookup, were not allowed to mingle with the staff, and the list could go on. Oh and one more thing. As soon as we arrived in-residence they immediately inspected all of our belongings to make sure we had our names on all of our belongings. If you were married you could expect to stand by and watch someone inspect your wife's panties that they were labeled and most likely it would be a man that inspected them. This happened to several couples I was in-residence with. Though the husbands were infuriated they lacked the courage to say anything except to b!tch in private. I HATED it. I nearly quit numerous times and in retrospect I wish I had. It was the longest most wasted two years of my life. The curriculum is completely bogus. The bulk of the class time was spent taking the way of abundance and power series complete with exams. What a sham what a scam. I was told I was in an accredited program only to find out the state of Colorado gives no recognition to my degree. My advice to anyone reading this who is thinking about the way corps is run like h3ll before you wind up with 4 lost years dedicated to a bogus program.