RTBLive Extra: Discerning Truth from Propaganda (with guest speaker Mark Perez)

Some atheists claim that Christians are the propagandists. How do we answer that? 

Is there a good resource about cognitive biases besides perhaps The Intelligence Trap? What do you think of The Intelligence Trap? 

What role does fear play in propaganda? 

How can we encourage more openness to competing ideas within the university environment? 

How can you weed out bad data from good data? When you hear opposing views how do you know what is reliable and what isn’t? 

In today’s society, it feels like you have to pick one side versus another. What do you do when you end up 50/50 on a belief? 

Is propaganda always bad? Certainly during World War II the United States had its own brand of propaganda. I would imagine the best propaganda contains elements of Truth. How are we to sort that out? 

How would you recommend starting conversations between Christians who have deeply different political ideologies on how to be Christ like? In home groups? One on one? 

Didn’t Peter’s first sermon cause fear in his audience? And what’s the difference between speaking fearsome truth and terrifying in order to persuade?