John W. Loftus

From Conservapedia
Jump to: navigation, search
An internet meme image, depicting militant atheists, produced by Ken Ammi of True Freethinker, in response to a cartoon created by John W. Loftus who criticized the term.

John W. Loftus (born 1954) is an American atheist author who writes about his conversion from Christianity to atheism.[1] He also engages in atheist apologetics.

Education

Loftus earned a bachelor's degree (B.R.E.), from Great Lakes Christian College in 1977. Subsequently, he obrained two master's degrees, M.A. and M.DiV., from Lincoln Christian University under the guidance of James D. Strauss and a Masters of Theology degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

Career in Christian ministry

Loftus is said to have been an ordained as a minister in the Church of Christ, though This Church has No Ordained Clergy, and He taught Christian apologetics for Great Lakes Christian College and Lincoln Christian University, as well as teaching philosophy/ethics at College of Lake County, Kellogg Community College and Trine University.

John W. Loftus' Debunking Christianity website: Loss of Google referral traffic

See also: Internet atheism

John W. Loftus' Debunking Christianity website lost a very large proportion of its Google referral traffic since its peak amount of Google referral web traffic according to the leading web marketing website SEMRush.

Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.


John Loftus and the no true Scotsman fallacy

See also: Atheism and the no true Scotsman fallacy

The ex-atheist Darrin Raspberry formerly wrote for the atheist John Loftus’ blog site Debunking Christianity.[2] After Raspberry became a Christian Loftus said that Raspberry “was never an atheist in the first place.”[3]

John Lotftus' commentary about fellow atheist PZ Myers

John Loftus cites John Draper (a Canadian atheist blogger), saying about prominent atheist PZ Myers: "According to PZ you either agree with him or you are the scum of the earth. If anyone is giving atheists a bad reputation it's PZ - he shows no tolerance or respect for anyone other than himself."[4]

Books

  • Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity
  • Why I Became an Atheist: Personal Reflections and Additional Arguments.
  • The Outsider Test for Faith
  • Co-author of God or Godless with Randal Rauser as a co-author

See also

External links

References

  1. ↑ John Loftus, Why I Became an Atheist -- Detailed Refutation by JP Holding
  2. ↑ Arguments for God’s existence leads former “Christ-hater,” Darrin Rasberry, to Christ follower by James Bishop
  3. ↑ Arguments for God’s existence leads former “Christ-hater,” Darrin Rasberry, to Christ follower by James Bishop
  4. ↑ Can PZ Myers Change His Ways? Should He? By John W. Loftus at 7/30/2012
Retrieved from "https://conservapedia.com/index.php?title=John_W._Loftus&oldid=1888832"