@DanielCC
Have you ever read Schellenberg's Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason ?
 

DanielCC wrote:

AKG wrote:

I am so done with Theism being strawmanned. If I see it one more time, I'm gonna turn into the Hulk. But seriously do people think we're that stupid or dumb? I'm insulted.

I sympathize but ask yourself: what in the end is there really to get angry about? These people make themselves look like idiots and embarrass the universities which employ them and granted them their initial degrees.

(An aside: I always find it funny when people ask something to the effect 'Doesn't it worry you that the majority of philosophers are atheists?'. First of all the majority of philosophers aren't even literate on the subject, secondly about half of those that are misunderstand it, at which point we've gone down from the 'majority' to at most a couple of hundred professionals worth taking seriously)

Alexander wrote:

Most people would rather think a position was obviously stupid than have to engage with it and seriously consider that they might be wrong. This is true of any position, not just theism.

I wouldn't be inclined to give people the benefit of the doubt in this case. For a large number of people who 'just don't like religion' I'd agree but in the case of 'self-styled' skeptics there is a blatant element of bad faith, something all the more glaring in the case of someone like Grunbaum or Law who has engaged with Philosophy of Religion in the past.

(Richard Gale, a colleague of Grunbaum and one of the foremost atheist/agnostic philosophers of religion, once recounted a tale to the effect that he - Grunbaum - was rather surly in his atheism)  
 

Even some atheists who specialize in the Philosophy of Religion or involve themselves in the field don't get some of the theistic arguments. For example, Mackie, in his Miracle of Theism, didn't really get the Thomistic arguments. I don't know if you ever seen the Sinnott vs WLC debate, but Dr. Sinnott didn't get the moral argument.

Check this article out: http://infidels.org/library/modern/adolf_grunbaum/problem.html
Grunbaum ends up attacking the famous "Cosmological straw-man" and other things that as far as I know, no theist philosopher defends. The worse part is that Grunbaum is a professional philosopher.

@iwpoe
Hmmm, sounds like rehashed logical positivism.

Oh man! Things just can't any worse can't they! I do agree that modern American students (perhaps European but I will focus mainly on American) need discipline and virtuous behavior these days. Look at those "SJW activist" students whining and complaining about anything. Heck, even the smallest offense can be considered oppressive and evil. Call me crazy, but I don't think that it is such a bad idea to get rid of those crap "philosophies."