Oh, I quite agree that reason is dangerous to Christianity, as it is dangerous to all wrong things. What I’m not convinced of is (1) that Christians in general think reason is dangerous to Christianity, or (2) that using reason to gain converts involves any sort of corruption of Christianity, as using unreason to gain converts might involve a corruption of rationalism, or (3) that using reason to gain converts would have as strong a tendency to undermine Christianity as using unreason to gain converts would have for rationalism.
As I said in the comments to your post on marketing rationalism: almost everyone agrees, most of the time, that reason, most of the the time, is mostly a good thing. This is a profound asymmetry between defending rationalism with reason and defending Christianity with the Bible.
Oh, I quite agree that reason is dangerous to Christianity, as it is dangerous to all wrong things. What I’m not convinced of is (1) that Christians in general think reason is dangerous to Christianity, or (2) that using reason to gain converts involves any sort of corruption of Christianity, as using unreason to gain converts might involve a corruption of rationalism, or (3) that using reason to gain converts would have as strong a tendency to undermine Christianity as using unreason to gain converts would have for rationalism.
As I said in the comments to your post on marketing rationalism: almost everyone agrees, most of the time, that reason, most of the the time, is mostly a good thing. This is a profound asymmetry between defending rationalism with reason and defending Christianity with the Bible.
Okay. I concede the asymmetry. Still a qualitative similarity.