(June 8, 2015 at 12:47 pm)SteveII Wrote:(June 7, 2015 at 8:33 am)Britney blue Wrote: How can I corner, of course with my words, Christians and make them feel they have no choice but admit to rethinking their position or part of their positions when it comes to the bible or their god? I usually go fishing online at conservative news sites like Breitbart News Network. I'll click on a story or headline, look down at the comments and either look for key words that Christians use or post a stimulating comment, which they would of course feel the need to correct me or defend their so called faith. Is there any tools or creative weapons of reason and logic that I can use to stump them?
If you're disrespectful and go for the shock value (like many in this forum), you will be dismissed out of hand and be another example of the "new atheist" that think that their ideas are somehow new, everyone else is stupid, and mockery and ridicule is the best tool (as Dawkins encourages) to accomplish the enlightenment of the masses.
I will caution you. If you ask a good question of an intelligent Christian that he/she cannot answer, you may just end up helping them. If they go research the issue, they will learn that the question has been asked and answered before. So, you may be inadvertently and indirectly educating Christians. BTW, several of you on this forum have served me in this way, so...thanks!
If you want to be an effective atheist evangelist, you will have to know what Christianity teaches FROM Christian sources. If you get your information of what the Bible teaches or what Christians believe from forums like this, it will be very clear very fast you do not understand what it is you are attacking and again be dismissed or waste time running down tangents.
Amen.
