The former has no content for me (like, no text on the page), so only referring to the latter:
Isn't it strange how the whole criticism is based on a completely unfounded assumption?
How does the author come to the conclusion that Anthony Magnabosco does not use the same methods to question his own beliefs? Unless he actually asked him questions about his beliefs, how does he know how he justifies his beliefs and whether he does have good justifications, or at least justifications that he himself considers good justifications?
And even stranger: How is it even relevant whether he personally uses it on anything else? He has advocated many times for religious people to adopt it as well to go out and question others' beliefs on religious matters. If he maybe has a blind spot on some of the things he believes (as people tend to have), then maybe it's on those who see the blind spots to use street epistemology on him? I mean, if anything, that's the whole point, to have a non-confrontational, constructive method to make other people aware of possible blind spots in their reasoning that they themselves can't see, for they are blind spots?
In one sentence, that criticism reads to me as "How dare he questions other people's blind spots and suggests everyone should be doing the same to help everyone see the blind spots they couldn't possibly find by themselves ... when he hasn't found his own blind spots by himself yet!" How is that anything but a completely nonsensical statement?
Isn't it strange how the whole criticism is based on a completely unfounded assumption?
How does the author come to the conclusion that Anthony Magnabosco does not use the same methods to question his own beliefs? Unless he actually asked him questions about his beliefs, how does he know how he justifies his beliefs and whether he does have good justifications, or at least justifications that he himself considers good justifications?
And even stranger: How is it even relevant whether he personally uses it on anything else? He has advocated many times for religious people to adopt it as well to go out and question others' beliefs on religious matters. If he maybe has a blind spot on some of the things he believes (as people tend to have), then maybe it's on those who see the blind spots to use street epistemology on him? I mean, if anything, that's the whole point, to have a non-confrontational, constructive method to make other people aware of possible blind spots in their reasoning that they themselves can't see, for they are blind spots?
In one sentence, that criticism reads to me as "How dare he questions other people's blind spots and suggests everyone should be doing the same to help everyone see the blind spots they couldn't possibly find by themselves ... when he hasn't found his own blind spots by himself yet!" How is that anything but a completely nonsensical statement?