Turns out one critic who wanted to debate the director of The God Who Wasn’t There has now retreated from his previous challenge. Brian Flemming writes:

This is a stunner. Talk about strange bedfellows.

A notorious Christian apologist named J.P. Holding has admitted that the case made in The God Who Wasn’t There is so solid that he could not refute it in a debate. He has backed out of a former debate challenge by stating:

I believe that Brian Flemming is right and that he will win any debate.

Wow.

Of course, as you probably suspect, that’s not the whole story. Mr. Holding is being sarcastic in the above statement. He says that if he signed the required Statement of Belief, that would be the same thing as saying, “I believe that Brian Flemming is right.”

But that tells us a lot right there, doesn’t it?

He’s essentially said this:

If the propositions in the Statement of Belief are true, Jesus did not exist.

I don’t see how it could be read any other way. J.P. Holding is essentially admitting that without the supernatural trump card, his position loses.

No rational person familiar with the facts could disagree with the Statement of Belief. Every one of those assertions is as obvious as “Brian Flemming takes enormous glee in manipulating Christian lunatics.” The only way not to believe them is to use the magic of faith.

So, rational people rejoice. A Christian apologist has freed you to believe that Jesus didn’t exist.

And he’s admitted that if it weren’t for the crazy part of his brain, he’d believe that, too.

To read Mr. Holding’s statement, scroll all the way down at this page.

(Oh, and here’s a window, possibly, into why J.P. Holding has a fixation on my movie. Imagine that you thought your eternal happiness was dependent on the whim of a notably temperamental sky god. And now imagine this sky god Googled you. Would He understand the meaning of “Sponsored Links”?)