He was an early Christian apologist and a polemicist against heresy, including contemporary Christian Gnosticism. He has been described as a neocon, Blair's "self-appointed apologist", and Blair's "yapping Pekingese". Also featured is evangelical apologist Josh McDowell. Some criticisms mistakenly considered Fogel an apologist for slavery. The Christian apologist Justin Martyr, however, took a much more positive view of him. Meaney accused McGovern of being "an apologist for the Communist world". Howe rejects the notion that Naipaul is an apologist of colonialism. He has also been called a "cult apologist" by various opposers of cults. In forcing Knigge out, Weishaupt deprived the order of its best theoretician, recruiter, and apologist. He is a senior apologist for Catholic Answers. Tertullian was a notable early Christian apologist. Athanasius is used as a witness for papal primacy on numerous Catholic apologist sites. Augustine of Hippo was a significant apologist of the Patristic era. He is remembered as an astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist and Rosicrucian apologist. He was a notable early Christian apologist.