Faith Under Fire

Greg Koukl of Stand To Reason will be debating Deepak Chopra (New Age guru) on this week's Faith Under Fire TV show on the PAX network. As I understand it, the topic covered will be religious pluralism. Greg is a Christian apologist who has much expertise in this area, so this should prove to be an interesting show.

Things I expect to see in the course of the dialog:

• Deepak being vague and mystical in outlining his beliefs
• Deepak maneuvering to the position of grace and tolerance and painting Greg as narrow-minded and judgmental
• Deepak using stories and metaphors in place of actual arguments, rather than as illustrations of points for which he has argued
• Deepak unconsciously making judgments and exclusive truth claims as well as excluding Greg's beliefs from his inclusivistic world
• Greg pointing out contradictions and calling Deepak to task on some of his claims
• Deepak failing to directly address Greg's points and making ad hominem attacks against him or Christians in general
• Deepak eschewing, either openly or implicitly, principles of logic and rational discourse
• Greg making important points that unfortunately fly over Deepak's head, and the heads of many of the viewers

I encourage you to tune in this Saturday evening. Might even be worth recording to share with friends (believers or otherwise). (And if I forget about this come Saturday night I'll be begging someone for a copy.)