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 worshiping Jesus
           
    • Hiedi Cullen said that meteorologists who don'tback 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

Here are some audio and video resources for conversations with unbelievers:

 
• AIG Nuclear Strength Apologetics
 
• Who Is Jesus: Defending Jesus Christ as the Way (part 1 of 2)
 
• Who Is Jesus: Defending Jesus Christ as the Way (part 2 of 2)
 
• Faith Under Fire: Jesus Among Other Gods (part 1 of 2)
 
• Faith Under Fire: Jesus Among Other Gods (part 2 of 2)
 
• God or Science: Stephen Hawking's False Choice (part 1 of 2)
 
• God or Science: Stephen Hawking's False Choice (part 2 of 2)
 
• The Loss of Truth (part 1 of 2)
 
• The Loss of Truth (part 2 of 2)
 
• Is Atheism Dead? Is God Alive? (part 1 of 2)
 
• Is Atheism Dead? Is God Alive? (part 2 of 2)
 
• Effective Apologetics in the 21st Century (part 1 of 4)
 
• Effective Apologetics in the 21st Century (part 2 of 4)
 
• Effective Apologetics in the 21st Century (part 3 of 4)
 
• Effective Apologetics in the 21st Century (part 4 of 4)
 
• Confidence in the Gospel in a World of Competing Ideas (part 1 of 4)
 
• Confidence in the Gospel in a World of Competing Ideas (part 2 of 4)
 
• Confidence in the Gospel in a World of Competing Ideas (part 3 of 4)
 
• Confidence in the Gospel in a World of Competing Ideas (part 4 of 4)
 
• Secularism and the Illusion of Neutrality (part 1 of 4)
 
• Secularism and the Illusion of Neutrality (part 2 of 4)
 
• Secularism and the Illusion of Neutrality (part 3 of 4)
 
• Secularism and the Illusion of Neutrality (part 4 of 4)