Presuppositions

Presuppositions are very important thing to understand in any conversation, dialog or debate. They are also, perhaps, one of the most neglected and misunderstood aspects of our relationships with others. Currently I'm reading a book titled The Dawkins Letters, Challenging Atheist Myths by David Robertson. He has written several open letters to Richard Dawkins pertaining to Dawkin's book The God Delusion. These letters, one letter in response to each chapter of the book, deal mostly with the presuppositions of atheists over and against, mainly, Christians (in the Biblical sense not in a political, ethnic nor religious sense). These letters were first posted on Mr. Robertson church web-site and then later were reposted on Dawkin's own web-site

It is interesting to note that the words fundamentalist, blind faith, intolerant, and irrational are used in this book to describe the responses of atheists to Mr. Robertson's letters. Mr. Robertson is merely trying to discuss the root of the belief system of Mr. Dawkins and has been vehemently opposed by some of Dawkin's disciples. Of course the point is noted that there are many Christians who resort and are guilty of the same thing.

One of my favorite things that David Robertson has said so far is that as Christians, we believe in the concept of absolute truth and that this truth is knowable. He then went on to say that as Christians, we believe that truth sets free and thus have nothing to fear from any of these debates and need not take up arms but openly and lovely discuss the real root of the issue, that is one's own presuppositions.