In my previous post, I documented briefly Ravi Zacharias' credentials fraud issue and directed you guys to the premiere researcher on the issue: Steve Baughman. I reached out to Steve and got the following response which he graciously let me quote:
"Thanks for keeping the issue alive. I quickly looked over what you sent and it looks good. I do think regarding Oxford the biggest deception on the part of Zacharias was the “I am now a professor at Oxford” I think that is far bigger than the issue you mention, “senior research fellow” thing and lecturing their regularly. Those are ambiguous enough to not get anybody excited. Of course they are deceptive, but nobody cares. The “professor at Oxford” , by contrast, is just a bald faced lie. I would mention that instead, if I were you. It’s in one of my videos. And Ravi admitted it in 2018 in a email to Warren Throckmorton, the Christian psychologist and blogger. - Steve Baughman."
I had simply forgotten that Ravi actually claimed to have been a professor at Oxford, while not having even been an employee there at any capacity. Imagine the guts it requires to lie so boldly while having an audience of millions about an issue that's so easy to check. I guess the research skills of his gullible evangelical audiences were worse than I had remembered!
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