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Ray Comfort is a New Zealand-born U.S. evangelical christian minister who writes books like The Evidence Bible, School of Biblical Evangelism, How to Know God Exists: Scientific Proof of God and World Religions in a Nutshell, among many others. They are sold in local christian bookshops like SKS Books Warehouse.
For someone who street-preaches to passers-by and debates with atheists and agnostics, this man is very daft. I don’t think he is aware of it but he embarrasses himself every time he opens his moustachioed mouth to speak about science and philosophy. But I didn’t know he is this stupid:
“If you call any other christian on this page a ‘bibliophile’ I will ban you. Please show respect for your fellow species.”
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Comfort obviously doesn’t know that the word bible is anglicised from the medieval Latin as well as koine Greek’s biblia, which means “books”. The term bibliophile has nothing to do with the bible!
Anyhow, to sidestep a bit, paedophile is such an inappropriate word to describe someone who is sexually attracted to young children as it literally means a lover (non-sexual) of children, period. I love children in that sense!
The problem with evangelicals, like Ray Comfort, is that they tend to opine with gospel-truth certitude on almost any subject that catches their fancy. They interpret the world only from their narrow brand of christianity and this warps their understanding on issues like atheism, human rights, secularism, ethics, darwinian evolution, cosmology, history, etc. It becomes very partial and often loony and ridiculous to listen to or read their comments on world affairs.
Learn darwinian evolution from a biologist, science from a philosopher of science, the universe from a cosmologist, Buddhism from a buddhist scholar, and so on and so forth. Never learn these subjects from an evangelical christian “apologist”! Like Ray Comfort.
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