Pastor Acknowledges Arguments of New Atheism

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Permalink Reply by Marc Sacks on August 19, 2008 at 1:01pm

"We are reminded that the church has faced a constellation of theological challenges throughout its history. Then, as now, the task is to articulate, communicate, and defend the Christian faith with intellectual integrity and evangelistic urgency."

In the past they just killed any dissenters. And now, more than ever, we have excellently strong scientific substantiation.

"The New Atheists are certainly right about one very important thing—it’s atheism or biblical theism. There is nothing in between."

Well that's a bunch of bullshit.

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Permalink Reply by Andreas Nicklasson on August 19, 2008 at 3:28pm

I don't really see it like that. You're either an atheist or a theist, there is no real middle ground between those positions, even though one can be confused over their own position (agnosticism deals with a whole different issue entirely).

Of course the position of theism versus atheism by itself is about as descriptive of ones character as ones hair color... and biblical is hardly the only flavor of theism out there.

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