Cordgrass (Spartina) ~ Invasive and Exotic Species of the Mind
Imagine you attend a lecture by a prominent Christian Apologist. As you listen to his presentation, you find his argument for human purpose to be elegant, compelling, and inspirational. At the end of the lecture, as the crowd begins filing out of the auditorium, your friend turns to you and remarks that she’s hesitant to believe anything the speaker said because he’d quoted the atheist philosopher Frederick Nietzsche’s famous line, “He who has a ‘why’ to live for can bear almost any ‘how’.”[4] You discuss other aspects of the talk but your friend is adamant: anyone who quotes an atheist is probably not a real Christian. How would you respond to this friend? Would you agree with her? Should we avoid ideas that come from other camps? The above conversation is hypothetical, but likely semblant of a real conversation you’ve had at some point in your life. It raises many valid questions about ...