Apologetics for Unbelievers

[rlg94086]

I consider the unborn fetus a human being but not yet a human person or part of society, and as such the person of the mother is far more important.

Do you agree with the guy who said he’d tell his wife to, ah, grow a pair, figuratively speaking, and die rather than commit a sin which could be confessed and forgiven – even if the infant could not be saved anyway? It was easy for him to say that: he didn’t have anything on the line.

I don’t know…you sound pretty sexist to me Mirdath. What do you have against men?

 

[steve_b]

Hi Everyone,

Last night I was listening to the radio with my roommate and there was a bit about the Pope recently issued a document condemning adoption by gay couples. I agreed with him, but my roommate, who is not religious, was incensed and offended. She used the argument “It is better for a child to have a home with two parents than to be in the foster care system.” I think she is probably right here. The foster care system is really awful, but I don’t think that should be a reason to allow gay adoption.

Which leads me to my question. I was trying to write an quick apologetic to defend the Catholic teachings on gay rights/marriage/adoption. This is relatively easy to do (and has already been done a million times on the internet) if you start off assuming that everyone accepts certain religious precepts, but I can’t figure out how to make any sort of argument with atheists.

Re: your last comment, It IS difficult discussing moral issues that have theological consequences with Atheists. They don’t believe in God so to them all consequences good or bad happen here. There is no after life, there is no Divine judge who saves or condemns to hell. Therefore, they think they make their own reality here.

Annie:

I mostly just try to avoid these discussions, but sometimes they are inevitable, and avoiding them doesn’t make me much of a crusader for my new faith.

Know, that the more you engage, the better you will become in discussion. But if/when you feel discouraged here’s a suggestion. This helps me to recenter…

Remember Jn 6:66

Jesus, the 2nd person of the Blessed Trinity, the one who spoke in the beginning, and EVERYTHING came into being, didn’t win every discussion. God in the flesh speaking directly here, watched some of His followers leave Him over His instruction never to follow Him after that. And Jesus let them go. Catch that? He let them go. Holy COW!!!

So don’t YOU feel bad if you don’t hit a home run each time up to bat.

God will NOT compromise a person’s free will. Grace is poured into ALL people. He gives everyone an equal chance to accept or reject Him.