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“Man can’t use his mind to know the truth; if he uses his mind he just comes up with something stupid like the theory of evolution.” – Jimmy Swaggart (quoted in C.S. Lewis’s Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason by Victor Reppert)

This quote made me laugh, so I thought I’d share it.  A note of context: Reppert used this quote to demonstrate the idea of fideism, which states that “religious beliefs are not open to rational evaluation.” (Reppert, p. 29)  I’ll leave it to you to determine how you think this is funny.