Dr. Todd Phillips Dr. Todd Phillips is a former megachurch pastor from Texas who now describes himself as an “agnostic atheist.” He claims that the cumulative weight of eight different reasons, encountered over a period of ten years, led him to deconstruct his faith. I was saddened to learn this, and I pray that he will be able to find his faith again. I have listened to his rationale, and I will provide several reasons why I believe his conclusions are incorrect. The first r

I once had a conversation with a coworker to which I had no real answer at the time. He told me that he did not believe in Christianity or God because his parents were “so-called Christians” and were hypocrites. All I could do at the time was listen and nod. As I learned more about Christianity and philosophy, I realized that my coworker’s claim committed the genetic fallacy[1]: it judged the truth of a belief by its source or association—in this case, the behavior of its fol