tips for christians when they debate atheists Options

[Seeker]

http://www.google.com/group/Atheism-vs-Chr...-atheists?hl=en

haha, i like number 2

2. More than likely, they are smarter than you are. This can be difficult to come to grips with, but it does appear to be true and is a claim that is actually supported by the Bible (1 Corinthians 1:18-31)

[TetraGrammaton C...]

Listen, you don't know the history of psychiatry, I do.

religious arguments always remind me of tom-cruise-type crazies.

sometimes it seems like enlightenment writers like Paine, Voltaire and Hume did very little for long term views of religion.

king james was a terrible king by christian standards, at least at the time.

neither group should have members debating someone who does not want to debate.

the point that Locke (religious and conservative) and many others make is that it is necessary to constantly challenge and question your beliefs in order to be fully developed as a religious person. i.e. it is necessary that logic and faith interact.

but if you do not want to debate, the answer is much more simplistic and requires only avoidance.
people who claim the first but fail to adhere to the latter have other agendas which supersede their proclaimed disinterest.


in closing, rub-a-dub.

[impala454]

the point that Locke (religious and conservative) and many others make is that it is necessary to constantly challenge and question your beliefs in order to be fully developed as a religious person. i.e. it is necessary that logic and faith interact.

there's a difference between questioning your own beliefs and having some jackasses make a hobby out of following you around trying to disprove you.