Monday, July 13, 2009

God is Back

Is Christianity in sharp decline? What are we to make of these recent neo-athiesm best sellers?

These two must read World Magazine Articles provide some helpful perspective . . .

  • Ready to Compete is an interview with two non-believing editors from the Economist

    On the double standard of neo-athiests. . .

    Two things really annoy me about the neo-atheist position. One is that they write about evangelical Christians in much the same way and in much the same tone as white supremacists used to talk about blacks. And the second thing is that there's a notion of unilateral moral disarmament where the other side is expected to disarm. If you're arguing about gay marriage, people who are liberals and who support gay marriage are allowed to bring their most profound moral beliefs to that argument, as they should be, but then they say, "You can't base your contrary arguments on religious beliefs, because that shouldn't be part of the public square." That's nonsense. Everybody should be allowed to bring their most profound beliefs; for many, many people, their most profound beliefs are based on their faith, and no one should question their right to bring those arguments and to engage in political organization on the basis of those arguments.

  • The Sixth Wind is a broader survey of the evangelical and athiest landscapes . . .

    Loved the admission of recent athiest turned Christian, A.N. Wilson . . . .

    "Like most educated people in Britain and Northern Europe (I was born in 1950), I have grown up in a culture that is overwhelmingly secular and anti-religious. The universities, broadcasters and media generally are not merely non-religious, they are positively anti. To my shame, I believe it was this that made me lose faith and heart in my youth. It felt so uncool to be religious. With the mentality of a child in the playground, I felt at some visceral level that being religious was unsexy."
The links will be good for the next 7 days, so read them soon and let me know what you think. I was encouraged.

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