David John Wellman | The Angry Apologetics of Almando (Response to CRMinistries, Christrighteous) @DavidJohnWellman | Uploaded April 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
I'll be honest: I get angry myself when dealing with Almando Calvo -- and you'll be able to hear it in this video. His incessant plagiarism, his contempt for the methods of rationality, his positive glee at censoring dissent, and his absolute refusal to engage, not only with any argument any atheist makes, but with any argument he himself makes. I haven't yet met an atheist who is NOT, to some extent, angered by this individual. So the word "angry" in the title is double-edged: both his affect and his effect.
This is not an entry in my series reviewing his book, although I do spend some time looking at the book; rather, it's an overall look at his approach to apologetics. Other apologists might complain that one person, and such a lousy example of the craft at that, should be allowed to monopolize so much of our time. The sheer awfulness of "Christrighteous" makes me think there is some justice in this complaint, but as I've said, both here and elsewhere, every Christian who has ever presented the gospel to me has believed that they were doing so properly. So your complaint is with Almando, not me.
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Quotations attributed to Calvo are taken from "God Is." by Almando L. Calvo, published by the author in 2022 and distributed by Lulu.
"This is the dealbreaker - Nothing else will do" by CRMinistries:
youtube.com/watch?v=7dzK05e4Y2U
"The Shining" is property of Warner Bros.
Background art by DJW
0:00 Inspection? What Inspection?
4:08 Lavender and Rose
5:44 Parroting Without Understanding
9:31 Stream of Consciousness (It Was a Mess)
13:56 Time for Some Clarity
16:19 "By Which How I Should Be Looking To"
21:31 Filthy Pigs (99 Atheists)
24:09 "STUPID ARGUMENTS!!"
25:00 Intense, Creepy Stares
27:17 We're Talking About You
28:53 An Interesting Thought
30:13 Almando Calvo's Declaration of War
I'll be honest: I get angry myself when dealing with Almando Calvo -- and you'll be able to hear it in this video. His incessant plagiarism, his contempt for the methods of rationality, his positive glee at censoring dissent, and his absolute refusal to engage, not only with any argument any atheist makes, but with any argument he himself makes. I haven't yet met an atheist who is NOT, to some extent, angered by this individual. So the word "angry" in the title is double-edged: both his affect and his effect.
This is not an entry in my series reviewing his book, although I do spend some time looking at the book; rather, it's an overall look at his approach to apologetics. Other apologists might complain that one person, and such a lousy example of the craft at that, should be allowed to monopolize so much of our time. The sheer awfulness of "Christrighteous" makes me think there is some justice in this complaint, but as I've said, both here and elsewhere, every Christian who has ever presented the gospel to me has believed that they were doing so properly. So your complaint is with Almando, not me.
**If you enjoy my work, I do accept donations!**
buymeacoffee.com/djwellman
Quotations attributed to Calvo are taken from "God Is." by Almando L. Calvo, published by the author in 2022 and distributed by Lulu.
"This is the dealbreaker - Nothing else will do" by CRMinistries:
youtube.com/watch?v=7dzK05e4Y2U
"The Shining" is property of Warner Bros.
Background art by DJW
0:00 Inspection? What Inspection?
4:08 Lavender and Rose
5:44 Parroting Without Understanding
9:31 Stream of Consciousness (It Was a Mess)
13:56 Time for Some Clarity
16:19 "By Which How I Should Be Looking To"
21:31 Filthy Pigs (99 Atheists)
24:09 "STUPID ARGUMENTS!!"
25:00 Intense, Creepy Stares
27:17 We're Talking About You
28:53 An Interesting Thought
30:13 Almando Calvo's Declaration of War
