What Lon isn't smart enough to grasp is how he contradicts himself with this literally idiotic statement.
"My argument is that anyone who relies on logic is doing it wrong."
Just think that through for ten seconds.
"MY ARGUMENT is that anyone who relies on logic is doing it wrong."
As I have stated on this website perhaps a thousand times over the years, you cannot undermine the veracity of logic without using logic to do it. An overt distrust of sound reason is the most profound example of self defeating stupidity that it is possible to perform.
Notice the syllogistic form of Lon's argument...
The bible is true.
The bible says not to lean on our own understanding. (false premise as applied - it is a rule of thumb not a law of nature or morality).
"our understanding" = "logic" (false premise)
Therefore, anyone who trusts logic is "doing it wrong".
His conclusion is false because of false premises but that isn't the point. The point is that whether he chooses to acknowledge it or not, he was using, albeit poorly, the very logic he is trying to convince us all can't be trusted. In other words, it isn't logic that has failed Lon, it is his own understanding! He is, in fact, leaning on his own understanding because without sound reason, that's all that there is left to lean on!
Lon, very simply and as a matter of fact, does not know how to think! He therefore checks his brain at the door of his church and is willing to believe WHATEVER he is told to believe. This is why it doesn't bother him that the supposedly immutable God became a man and died and rose from the dead. It's not that he doesn't see the contradiction. He totally sees the contradiction and simply doesn't care. He is perfectly willing to live with the contradiction because he doesn't trust his own mind to detect error even when that error is in direct conflict with the bible that he claims is the source of his doctrine and this willingness to ignore blatant contradiction is what he thinks it means to have faith. The more blatant the contradiction the more pure and pious the faith.
And this mindless belief that Lon call faith, is his core doctrine. The rejection of reason is the central pillar upon which he has built his entire theological worldview. If I came here touting virtually any other wacky doctrine anyone could name, he'd have no problem with me whatsoever, regardless of how dogmatic I was about it. But not the rejection of reason! That's the hill which Lon must defend or die trying because if one's Christianity must make rational sense, then much of what Lon believes goes up in smoke.
In short, by cutting himself off from the only tool available by which anyone can detect truth or error, (i.e. sound reason), Lon believe whatever he wants to believe and demands that you do the same or else you're "doing it wrong".
Clete
