David Wood

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'''David Wood''' {{lived|1976}} is an [[United States|American]] [[Christian]] [[apologist]], an [[evangelical]] [[missionary]], and a loud speaker against [[atheism]] and [[Islam]]. He is the head of the Acts 17 Apologetics Ministry, ran the now-defunct website  ''AnsweringInfidels.com,''<ref name=answeringinfidels>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060206045610/http://www.answeringinfidels.com:80/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/ AnsweringInfidels]</ref> and member of the {{wpl|Society of Christian Philosophers}} and the {{wpl|Evangelical Philosopher Society||.}}<ref>[https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/opinion/columns/story/2015/oct/04/wood/328261/ "Wood: Holy Books of Peace? Religious scholars will debate whether the Bible and Quran promote peace or violence"] October 3, 2015</ref>  He claims that he [["I used to be an atheist"|used to be an atheist]] and was a [[psychopath]] until [[Zeal of the convert| he was saved by]] [[Jesus|Jesus]] himself. In 2025 he admitted to (why is this oh so predictable) child rape. 

==Crimes==
===Attempted murder===
David Wood is a self-admitted psycopath who attempted to [https://x.com/Acts17David/status/1969985672053400015 murder his father] with a hammer, for which he was jailed. 

===Child rape===
In a shocking (but not surprising) stream David Wood [https://premierchristian.news/us/news/article/christian-apologist-david-wood-confesses-sexual-activity-with-minors confessed] to raping children when he was 18. Wood stated 'The last two girls I had sex with before I went to jail... one was 13 and one was 15..." He also blamed the victim stating "To be fair, she [the 13 year old] flung herself at me, so I guess I can defend it? No, I don't defend it, I shouldn't have done it" 

==Websites==

===AnsweringInfidels===
Wood started the now-defunct apologetics website, ''AnsweringInfidels.com'', which was a response to the writers at [[Infidels.org]]. In their own words, they are dedicated to "refuting the arguments of the self-proclaimed "infidels" of the Secular Web."<ref name=answeringinfidels/>

====Beef with Richard Carrier====
In 2005, Wood wrote a long and rambling polemic against historian and atheist [[Richard Carrier]] and his book ''Sense and Goodness Without God'', called "Good 'n' Senseless Without God: A Critical Review of Richard Carrier's New Book, Sense & Goodness Without God".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060211000026/http://www.answeringinfidels.com/content/view/76/48/ Wood, David. "Good 'n' Senseless Without God: A Critical Review of Richard Carrier's new book, Sense & Goodness Without God".] ''AnsweringInfidels.com.''</ref> Wood's work received massive criticism by Carrier himself in an essay called "On the Deceptions of David Wood", where he slammed Wood for being "a fine example of Christian [[bigotry]]" and that his work was "essentially a trash-talking diatribe, filled with open disdain and lack of manners or respect, entirely founded on misrepresenting the facts."<ref>[[Richard Carrier]]. [https://www.richardcarrier.info/contrawood.html On the Deceptions of David Wood]</ref> David Wood replied to Carrier's criticism in a rather arrogant manner.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060207072639/http://www.answeringinfidels.com:80/content/view/97/47/ Carrier’s Objections, Wood’s Replies Part I]</ref>

==="Acts17Apologetics"===
Wood and his wife, Marie, who was an agnostic until she converted to Christianity, also posted articles on their blogger website.<ref>http://www.acts17.net/</ref>

===On YouTube===
Wood ran a [[YouTube]] channel with the same name as his ministry, Acts17Apologetics, which as of October 2021, had over 625,000 subscribers and over 153 million views.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/user/Acts17Apologetics/about</ref>. In 2022, Wood left YouTube after having multiple videos erroneously deleted by YouTube and accruing multiple erroneous community strikes. Wood repeatedly tweeted @TeamYouTube to complain about these strikes <ref>https://twitter.com/Acts17David/status/1506353400132378628</ref> <ref>https://twitter.com/Acts17David/status/1535460165495005184</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/Acts17David/status/1529795607661096961</ref>. Feeling like he wasn't listened to, he eventually decided to leave YouTube and start his own website, apologetics315.com, where he could post his content without the risk of it being banned.  

===On Twitter===
David Wood is active on [https://x.com/Acts17David twitter] where he routinely challenges Muslim and posts apologetic content. 

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