[marketerinland]

Old and convincing, to those who want to be persuaded by them.

I also disliked Dawkins’ book and found my path to atheism elsewhere.

However, the problem of evil has a persuasive answer only for those already within the system, to speak.

Christian apologetics is nearly exclusively a field of interest for those Christians who want to be more prepared to deal with conversations with non-believers.

The problem should be obvious already.

If you became a Christian before being exposed to the ‘rational’ arguments for being a Christian, then what exactly caused you to become a Christian?

Given the extraordinary amount of effort poured into the field of apologetics with very little outcome in terms of new converts, it seems to me that the primary purpose of Christian apologetics is to help those suffering a bout of cognitive dissonance to stuff it back down.

*edited to fix typo