Atheist Forum Conversations 1
A while ago I said that I wasn't interested in debating with atheists. ( http://joshuaforeman.blogspot.com/2006/09/admission.html ) Well, things change. It's not that I decided to pick a fight, or felt like God was telling me to go convert some heathen. It was actually a prick of conscience. I was in a discussion on some forum and I said sort of off hand, (I guess that I say almost every thing sort of off hand.) "I don't bother debating atheists. I think it's a pointless exercise." That statement may have been true. But it kept coming back to me over the next couple of weeks. That little voice kept asking me why I said that. Why I thought that. And the conclusion I came to was that I had constructed a stereotype for a particular group of people. And I don't like that. I'd rather have a fuller understanding of others rather than corralling them into some sort of mental prison in my head that I can marginalize and never deal wit...