[Avodah] How to teach emuna

[Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer via Avodah]

Of course one can google and go to Wikipedia and find rebuttals. At that 
point, as RNW says, you (or your interlocutor) must be a judge, not a 
lawyer. I think the Freddie Gray case is a good one in point of how a 
judge differs from a lawyer, and certainly from the masses. Rebuttals of 
the KP and ID are a dime a dozen and worth about as much.

KT,

YGB


On 8/10/2016 1:12 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> [snip]
> And what he was saying is that it's a harder criterion. One not only
> needs to have a valid justification (if not proof but a set of strong
> arguments and/or personal experience) AND be something that will stand up
> to today's knee-jerk cynicism. He emphasized that any justification that
> doesn't stand up to critical thought will be subject to that cynicism,
> since one needn't be clever to be able to find a rebuttal, likely with
> all the sarcasm already provided, somewhere on line.
>
> So, for example, even if the misnamed Kuzari Principle were valid
> justification, the fact is that for someone with a cell-phone, they wont'
> accept it as such. There are enough rebuttals they coule find with a
> few seconds of typing.
>
> To make R Berkovitz's point, it's irrelevent whether more than a cabal
> actually did know about ma'amad Har Sinai in Ezra's day. It's only
> whether someone can argue that it could have been, well enough to
> defuse the KP's power to convince.
> [snip]