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Intellectual Honesty, Atheism, and Faith

I was recently asked two questions by a long-time family friend – who also happens to be an ordained Assembly of God minister. One was how an “intellectually honest” atheist could deny the “historical fact” of the Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth? The other was one atheists have heard (and answered) too many times before: “How is atheism not a faith too?” Intellectual Honesty There is nothing “intellectually honest,” at all, in asserting that any miraculous, supernatural phenomena is a “historical fact.” This is so obviously wrong – and on so many levels – that it was difficult to know where to begin. Here is a partial (and abbreviated) list of what is, and is not, intellectual honesty: Intellectual honesty... does not allow one to ignore evidence that goes against whatever it is that they want to be true (e.g. “So, Mr. President, what was it that made you think Saddam had all those WMDs in the first place?”) is implacably opposed to compartmentalized thinking (