It seems that more and more, there is arising a wave of critics about Christianity and especially the Evangelical blend. This wave, sometimes called the New Atheists(what is it with us calling every thing the New ______?) present some reasoned arguments against Christianity, which many find hard to defend.
I see people having two choices in how we deal with this sort of skepticism: we retreat, hide away from any criticism and demonize our critics, or we acknowledge that faith is niether easy nor obvious and that there are many hard things which we believe.
I am a much bigger fan of the latter choice, and it’s why I at times don’t have a problem sounding like I’m trying to draw out arguments. Truth be told if you’re a Christian, I want to force your hand to look at how tough some of the things we believe are, and how challenging they are. I don’t do this just to shake you up and get in your head, but because I believe it is vital for us to realize how tough and how crazy what we believe really is. We need to address those doubts, if for no other reason than to be able to admit we have doubts.
