by Sandy » Thu Jul 10, 2014 4:34 pm
It's deceptive to associate this event with Trey Gowdy, who isn't involved in it. In fact, most everyone on the program is a noted Christian apologist, and some of them are from mainline denominations, not necessarily conservative, right wingers. Todd Starnes, of Fox News, whom I've met, is hosting a lunch, and he, along with Barton and Tim Wildmon might be considered to have right wing political connections. Ben Carson is being pushed by the Tea idiots as a potential Presidential candidate, though he doesn't seem to be interested, and on occasion, smacks them down with an intelligent, thoughtful statement or two.
This is clearly an apologetics event, and it's only being held at FBC Spartanburg, which, I would guess, is getting a fee for the use of its building. And though I would guess, and hope, that the church wouldn't host an event that would be hostile to its mission and purpose, their involvement with this doesn't imply the connection that you are implying that it does. The sponsor is North Greenville University. I guess Christian apologetics, which is clearly on the same intellectual level as the little cabal of patronizing liberals that you constantly mention in relation to, well, just about everything, rankles your hide because it provides evidence that you don't have to be liberal to be a Christian intellectual.
And the fact of the matter is that most of these people, especially Carson, Metaxas, Josh and Sean McDowell, and Gary Habermas, are more respected and followed than your little cabal of Balmer, Worthen, et al.