# A Deconvert Faces TAG: Can Presuppositionalism Reach the Honest Skeptic?

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Podcast: [The Christian Podcast Community](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-christian-podcast-community-230445)
Published: 2026-05-08T02:45:00+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasts.strivingforeternity.org/category/programs/apologetics-live/
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He grew up on a missionary campus in rural East Texas. He played music in church, attended every summer camp, became a worship leader in Orlando, and fully invested himself in the Christian faith he loved. Then he walked away. Landon Pontius is the kind of deconvert most apologists are not used to engaging — articulate, kind, not bitter, and openly stating he would almost prefer to still believe. In his widely shared essay, he explained that the Christian apologetic arguments he encountered either "rest on presumptions of the Bible's historicity" or rely on "ideas that are too abstract to directly dispute." That second category is the heart of this episode. This week, host Andrew Rappaport sits down with Landon to test whether the Transcendental Argument for God (TAG) and the broader presuppositional method can do what evidential apologetics, in Landon's experience, did not. Anchored in Proverbs 1:7 , Colossians 2:3 , and Romans 1:18–22 , the conversation will press the foundational question every worldview must answer: How do you account for logic, induction, moral realism, and the very reliability of reason itself? Andrew will not be arguing that Landon needs more evidence. He will be arguing that, on his current worldview, the very tools Landon uses to evaluate evidence have no foundation. Listeners will see presuppositional apologetics modeled live against an articulate, intellectually engaged former believer — exactly the situation TAG was designed to address. True to the format, the second hour swings the doors wide. Atheists, agnostics, fellow deconverts, classical apologists who think presuppositionalism overstates its case, and Christians wanting to learn the method are all welcome to join, push back, ask questions, or bring their own challenges. Bring your to…

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