The post is evangelistic, in that evangelism means communicating the gospel (good news) about Christianity.
I want to tell people this good news, in this case simple basic core facts about Christianity - and open a discussion with (the majority) of my readership who are not former Christians with a very strong belief that Christianity cannot possibly be true. There is a place for that kind of discussion, and I'd hope the many posts with extremely many comments (http://robhu.livejournal.com/598749.html) show that there is also a place for deep detailed discussion with former Christians. I welcome and enjoy both types of debate, but the former is extremely neglected. It may be that it's unreasonable to try to have place for both in my blog - that I should just accept that every time I say anything even as simple and basic as these things that the committed former Christian atheists will come along and argue every single point.
If I made a post that said "Christians believe in God" I can almost imagine someone coming along and telling me that just isn't true (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_atheist), and entering in to a big debate about that. There is some value in that kind of debate, but it can easily drown out there more basic simple discussions that others might want to have, and perhaps wouldn't be a very good use of time.
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Date: 2008-08-24 09:16 pm (UTC)I want to tell people this good news, in this case simple basic core facts about Christianity - and open a discussion with (the majority) of my readership who are not former Christians with a very strong belief that Christianity cannot possibly be true. There is a place for that kind of discussion, and I'd hope the many posts with extremely many comments (http://robhu.livejournal.com/598749.html) show that there is also a place for deep detailed discussion with former Christians. I welcome and enjoy both types of debate, but the former is extremely neglected. It may be that it's unreasonable to try to have place for both in my blog - that I should just accept that every time I say anything even as simple and basic as these things that the committed former Christian atheists will come along and argue every single point.
If I made a post that said "Christians believe in God" I can almost imagine someone coming along and telling me that just isn't true (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_atheist), and entering in to a big debate about that. There is some value in that kind of debate, but it can easily drown out there more basic simple discussions that others might want to have, and perhaps wouldn't be a very good use of time.