How the truth is opposed in every forum

1. Ignore the viewpoint

• Examples:
  • Ignoring early Christian history and Church order, government, power, etc. as recorded in the Bible. 
  • Your viewpoint may be deliberately ignored by someone.
  • Failure to report (in the media) anything positive from Christians (except liberal "christians")
  • Reporting only errors made by Christians.
  • Heavily reporting viewpoints of pseudo-Christians, while failing to report on any Biblical Christians.

2. Marginalization

• Label as out of the mainstream
• State that only those on the fringes hold this position
• Label as extreme
• Examples:
  • Attacks against the Gospel through the centuries
  • Attacks by evolutionists against those who don't believe them
  • Attacks by global warming advocates
  • Attacks by liberal denominations, and the fact that they call themselves, "mainline."

3. Contention with the foundational premise

• Trying to find something wrong with the premise           
• Often, this consists of misrepresentations of the premise
• Examples:
  • Attacks against the Gospel through the centuries
    • Claims that Christ didn’t rise
    • Claims against the Bible
      • Claims of errors
      • Claims of many translations
      • Claims contesting authorship
      • Da Vinci Code and other fiction
    • Unrealistic and silly claims for the scientific method
    • Post Modernism—claiming that there is no such thing as truth

4. Summary Dismissal

• Statements to say that the debate is over
• History has shown us . . .
• It is now beyond dispute . . .
• It has long been settled . . .
  • Examples: evolution, global warming
  • Attacks against the Gospel through the centuries

5. Ad Hominem Attacks

• Attacks against the person
• All reasonable people disagree with you
• Any reputable scholar won’t accept this
• Name-calling
• Epithets
• Mean-spirited personal attacks
• Anything to divert attention away from the viewpoint
• Ad Hominem attacks are a sign of desperation.
• Examples:
  • The Clinton attack machine against Paula White
  • Attacks by evolutionists or global warming backers
  • Attacks against those who spread Gospel through the centuries

6. Obstructions to stating opposing opinions

• Constrain you in any way possible
• Trying to restrict the ability to convey the idea
• Examples
  • Shouting and chanting to drown out any voice of dissent
  • Physical threats against those holding a Christian viewpoint
  • Fairness Doctrine
  • Federal Funding of the protected argument: global warming, evolution, etc.
  • Federal restrictions on Churches regarding taking a stand for a Christian candidate over a secularist candidate
  • Job discrimination against Christians
  • Workplace shunning of Christians

7. Prohibitions to stating opposing opinions

• Make it illegal to state any opposing opinions
• Examples
  • Federal Hate Crime
  • China
    • killed for spreading the Gospel
    • jailed for worshipping Jesus
    • Hiedi Cullen said that meteorologists who don’t back global warming should have their credentials pulled.
  • Socialists/Atheists killing Christians
  • Muslims killing Christians
  • Hindus killing Christians
  • Making it illegal to teach creation science in schools.
  • Pulling funding or firing scientists who find evidence that supports creation, that refutes evolutionism, or that refutes human-generated global warming theories.

Source:

Dr. Frank Wright