When I read the title of this article - "Bulverism", I quickly search my dictionary for this word, because my English is poor. Of course, I could not find it. "Bulverism" is a term created by C.S.Lewis, which he imagined a boy named Ezekiel Bulver. "Bulvarism" means that, people assume that someone is wrong, then they start explaining why he is wrong, without showing that it is wrong. This method let people to distract the attention from the real issue, which makes them seems like they are right. This method is very common at those years when Lewis write this, but it is a logical fallacy. He gives out some examples, including Freudians and Marxians ideas. He said there are 2 situations: if they say all thoughts are tainted, then they cannot criticize Christianily because they have the same concept. If they say some thoughts are tainted and some are not, then they have to distinguish between tainted ones and non-tainted ones. Lewis continue to explain that if "Bulverism" still exists, all reasons will become useless.
I found this essay harder to read than "Meditation in a Toolshed". The words Lewis used and the theory is more difficult. Luckily, Lewis still used easy words to conclude his idea, and also the way to make a imaginary character attracts me.
I agree to what Lewis says. Even nowadays, people criticize other people's idea, not by what they says, but by what they have go wrong, so their ideas must be wrong. As I have talked in the last essay, non Christians and Christians attack each other in Hong Kong. From what I heard of, some Christians are very unyielding to make non Christians to become Christians. This make non Christians think that the action of Christians are wrong, so they don't believe in God. However, they did not take a look on the idea of Christianity.
As long as living in a world which technology is so powerful, we have to be very careful when listen to media. People are too easily to be affected by media, so our opinion is sometimes tends to what media has say. That way we will be stuck into "Bulverism", so try to avoid this.
It is sad the lengths some will go to convince others that they are right. It is also sad that people are being turned away from Christ based on the action of people who call themselves believers. I also agree that you are right wind you say that media tends to have powerful persuasion techniques.
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