Asking for evidence
A few weeks ago, a friend on Facebook posted this:
This just didn’t seem right, so I asked him what evidence he had to back up this assertion. Several weeks later my friend still hasn’t responded to my request for evidence…
I went and looked at a Fact-Checker website which assessed that it was Mostly False.
People are often afraid of doing apologetics, but honestly most of the time you’re just asking some basic questions, particularly “Do you have any evidence to back up that claim?”. If none is presented, it betrays that the opinion is primarily held because the person would like it to be true, rather than as a result of conscientious study.
Here’s Steven Crowder picking apart a piece recently from John Oliver. Crowder is a bit more combative than I would like (and he commits the unforgivable sin of mocking the English accent!), but other than that, it’s a pretty good response to these kind of claims about Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs).
I was recently reminded in conversation that most American Catholics have never watched the TV show “Father Ted”. To be fair, it’s a rather bizarre TV show, with a distinctly quirky sense of humour. However, it’s well worth a watch.
A song from the New Wine Conference, “Spirit Fall”, sung by Susie Woodbridge: