While on the one hand aggressive atheism is a bit unnerving to me, a believer, on the other hand, I just can't get that evangelistically worked-up about them. For one thing, they'll never succeed in making non-believers out of true-believers, and for another, I'll never succeed in arguing them into belief. The God which they don't believe exists is still in charge, whether they believe it or not. It never hurts to remind ourselves that Jesus told us to make disciples, not converts. If someone is open to the possiblility of the supernatural, then discourse is in order. If they're not, it's just a never ending circle jerk argument at the conclusion of which no one changes their mind. This is the same reason I've given up listening to debate-formatted radio and TV. What's the point?
While on the one hand aggressive atheism is a bit unnerving to me, a believer, on the other hand, I just can't get that evangelistically worked-up about them. For one thing, they'll never succeed in making non-believers out of true-believers, and for another, I'll never succeed in arguing them into belief. The God which they don't believe exists is still in charge, whether they believe it or not. It never hurts to remind ourselves that Jesus told us to make disciples, not converts. If someone is open to the possiblility of the supernatural, then discourse is in order. If they're not, it's just a never ending circle jerk argument at the conclusion of which no one changes their mind. This is the same reason I've given up listening to debate-formatted radio and TV. What's the point?