gbob. Thank you. Brother. I once bought the complete works of Francis Schaeffer, going cheap. No wonder. I read the first page and no more. He attacked the culture that birthed him. Apologetics are best done from a position of… apology, of humility. As rhetorical devices. You don’t have to mean it : ) Telling people with the vinegar that they are insane cowards will not catch flies. And it’s extremely suggestive of fear and its projection. I made a friend of a brilliant atheist by being agreeable. Being aggressive or even defensive would have ruined everybody’s day. I don’t want you to give up your religion, just change how you sell it. Which I see you have. You are appealing to something other in me. The big deal, as you are instinctively feeling toward, isn’t delusion. It’s honey. Christian love. I.e. transcendent in fully human ignorance. That’s how you catch flies. As your change of tack has caught me.
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