Comments on: Student response to Sax Appeal blasphemy

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Cape Times and Argus - holocaust denialists? | Synapses — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:33:07 +0000

[...] she impersonated the typical student by a) writing a letter to the UCT student newspaper, and b) making little sense, is at it again. This time she focuses on (b) exclusively, and swaps her fake student hat out for [...]

By: Jacques

Jacques — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:26:03 +0000

I have, and my posts are, in a general sense, my comments also.

By: Samson261

Samson261 — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:16:22 +0000

I wonder how many of the above have actually taken the time to read the Bible, the whole book that is.
I look forward to comments when you have.

By: Doodle Cat

Doodle Cat — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 11:15:16 +0000

roflmao @ Christian Action Network aren’t they a terrorist organization?

By: Jacques

Jacques — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:05:10 +0000

I wonder, though, whether her Facebook page will tell us how she reconciles sending a letter to a student publication, and the consequent impression readers form, with her actual role and status? Is fraud endorsed somewhere in her religious text? Actually, don’t answer that – fraud is all over it.

By: Goblin

Goblin — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:56:54 +0000

Well if you would like to find out more about her…her facebook page is wide open. It’s rather interesting to find out what these folk get up to actually.

By: Jacques

Jacques — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:05:10 +0000

There is nobody registered at UCT under that name. So – a truly scary development – Taryn Hodgson is actually considered an authority on this stuff, judging by her google results. I thought she was perhaps a 1st-year – hence my sympathetic treatment of her letter, obviously.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:22:43 +0000

you mean you havent read “The Case for Christ” (the one by Lee Strobel) – the one that has all us atheists shivering???! shame on you! lol

i do recommend reading it for a good sense of frustration at circular arguments. Its the first time I encountered “America’s (supposedly) no1 Christian apologist” William Lane Craig lol.

I’ve actually punished myself and read his theological book “Reasonable Faith” , here is a classic from it:

1. Thereore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of lack of evidence or because of intellectual difficulties: at root, he refuses to come because he willingly ignores and rejects the drawing of God’s Spirit on his heart. No one in the final analysis really fails to become a Christian because of lack of arguments; he fails to become a Christian because he loves darkness rather than light and wants nothing to do with God. [William Lane Craig, Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics, (Revised edition, Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 1994), pp. 35-36.]

2. Should a conflict arise between the witness of the Holy Spirit to the fundamental truth of the Christian faith and beliefs based on argument and evidence, then it is the former which must take precedence over the latter, not vice versa. [William Lane Craig, Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics, (Revised edition, Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 1994), p. 36.]

3. The Bible says all men are without excuse. Even those who are given no good reason to believe and many persuasive reasons to disbelieve have no excuse, because the ultimate reason they do not believe is that they have deliberately rejected God’s Holy Spirit. [William Lane Craig, Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics, (Revised edition, Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 1994), p. 37.]

By: Jacques

Jacques — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:50:39 +0000

I suspect, as you no doubt do, that she’s masquerading as a student. Will investigate and report back.

By: 6000

6000 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:13:25 +0000

So is Taryn actually a student at UCT?

Or just anxious to let us all know her thoughts (again)?

Of course, there could be two misguided Taryn Hodgsons, although that does seem somewhat unlikely.

(I’m still very tempted to ask for a copy of that DVD).