The “Conversation”
by: Rev. DanI haven’t been online much recently, but the few minutes a day that I have been online, I’ve seen several comments related to “the Conversation” between the church and the body of non-believers.
To quote the bumpersticker/cliche: “It’s unfair to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.”
In order to actually have a conversation both parties have to be willing to shut up and listen to the other person when they speak, and understand the way that they use language. I know plenty of Atheists who can fully well articulate Biblical Christianity, but have yet to run across a Christianist who is willing to even seriously consider a position that doesn’t center upon Christ on the Cross, or whose position wasn’t articulated to him in an “outreach” or “Biblical Apologetics” class. Whose ears are deaf? I propose that “the Conversation” has long since ended, if it was even happening in the first place.
A place to start anew is to quit with the pretending that we’re actually having a Conversation and actually try to have one. The problem I see, however, is: “How does one entice the willfully ignorant to embrace actual learning when their very being is set up upon faith in the irrational?”
Perhaps not-so-tangentally, this week’s Out of Fellowship is pure gold.
(h/t to Stragglyr Chris for the brilliant example of Christian Love.)
The hell? That sign is absolutely disgusting.