Christian lies in textbooks

[Dragan Glas]

Greetings,

I've decided to go back to school and change my major. I decided to take Philosophy of religion as one of my required electives. Class doesn't start for a few weeks but i could not help but to start reading. The first required reading was on the traditional arguments for the existence of God. The first argument used is the ontological argument , which he quotes Bertrand Russell as saying:

I remember the precise moment, one day in 1984. as i was walking along Trinity lane when i saw in a flash that the ontological argument is valid. I had gone out to by a tine of tobacco, on my way back, I suddenly threw it up in the air and exclaimed as i caught it: "Great Scott, the ontological argument is sound!

As soon as i read this, i knew something was wrong, or missing. I'm pretty ignorant about Bertrand Russell's work but i knew this could not have been his last and final say on the subject or no other reason Christians like to lie to promote their point of view. I found a PDF file of his autobiography and the very next sentence says

Although after 1898 I no longer accepted McTaggarts Philosophy

Who is McTaggart? Russell says he was under his influence for "two or three years"

It amazes me how people could be so dishonest, even in textbooks! This isn't a elementary creation science textbook either. What is even worse is that most students won't even bother to look into that quote. I read that and could not read anymore until i found out if what the author quoted was in an honest context. Of course it wasn't.

Am i missing something or am i right that this is a flat out lie being told here?

You don't mention the title of the book or the author - could you give us that and/or its ISBN?

Also, I did a quick Google on the quote of Russell's and found the following, which may be of some assistance.

Kindest regards,

James

 

[rareblackatheist]

Here is the book. The quote is on page 137
http://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Religion-Anthology-Louis-Pojman/dp/1111305447

 

[Charlie Dodd]

Regarding this thread's title "Christian Lies in Textbooks" the bottom line is that real christians don't lie!
If somebody lies, they can't be a christian, because christianity says lying is a no-no, gettit?..

 

[australopithecus]

The No True Scotsman is strong in this one.

 

[RedYellow]

Regarding this thread's title "Christian Lies in Textbooks" the bottom line is that real christians don't lie!
If somebody lies, they can't be a christian, because christianity says lying is a no-no, gettit?..

This is an actual argument I've encountered a few times.