conversations with an atheist
is faith in God as unreasonable, illogical and irrational?

I have to admit. I prayed for this. I think. I asked God to provide an opportunity for a conversation about faith and that He would equip me for it. Be careful what you pray for. Because I am in WAY over my head ...
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A few days back I posted that I had an opportunity to have a conversation with a born-again atheist. When I say "born-again atheist" I mean he was a born again Christian, but is now an atheist. Below is the first email exchange to follow that verbal conversation. ...
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I'm having an ongoing conversation with a born-again atheist. When I say "born-again atheist" I mean he was a born again Christian, but is now an atheist. Below is the email exchange in which we set the ground rules for blog posting. One thing I want to emphasize is the pseudonym. I'm going to respect the pseudonym ...
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So far, I've been including the back and forth of these conversations in one post, but I think I'm going to shift and begin posting most of these emails one at a time. The fact that you don't see my response to AtypicalAtheist's email below is ZERO indication that I agree with the statements he's made. Just means I haven't responded...YET ...
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...Your statements in our initial conversation sparked my interest in two ways: 1. How did you - a self-professed born again Christian - become an atheist? 2. Why do you view faith in God as unreasonable, illogical and irrational? ...
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Below is PART ONE of AtypicalAtheist's response to one of two questions I posed to him in my previous email. "How did you – a self-professed born again Christian – become an atheist?" ...
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Below is part 2 of AtypicalAtheist's response to my question: "How did you – a self-professed born again Christian – become an atheist?" ...
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This post is my response to AtypicalAthiest's two part answer to my question: "How did you – a self-professed born again Christian – become an atheist?" ...
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Below is AtypicalAtheist's response to my second question: "Why do you view faith in God as unreasonable, illogical and irrational?" ...
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Note: Below is AtypicalAtheist's response to "conversations with a born-again atheist: Christianity buried so deep in religion, it’s almost impossible to find." I fondly refer to this as "the shotgun email" because it spread out and hit so many points at once, I couldn't possibly address everything in one email response. wowza ...
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This started as my brief reply to AtypicalAtheist's "shotgun email" (because it hit so many points at once). Before I could reply to the rest of the shotgun email, he asked me for my thoughts on his "Santa Comparison." So. Santa tangent ahead ...
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Santa tangent ahead. Before I could reply to the "Shotgun" email, AtypicalAtheist asked me for my thoughts on his "Santa Comparison." [snip] “Also, do you have a suggestion of better language or terms that I could use, knowing how I feel about the topic, and how you feel about having your beliefs seemingly trivialized?” ...
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This is some in-between/behind the scenes conversation between AtypicalAtheist and myself. I'm including it in the blog series because I want to remind readers that he and are actually friends in real life - even though we hold very, very different beliefs about God ...
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Wrapping up the "Santa tangent." ...
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For months after I published my "Christ-centered church" series, I was convinced I couldn’t put words together in comprehensible sentences. I couldn’t write. I stopped the “conversations with a born-again atheist” series. If what I said about my faith caused CHRISTIANS such confusion and anger, I had NO business talking to an atheist. seriously. I was paralyzed by a complete and total lack of confidence in my ability to discern ANYthing. God’s will, God’s prompting, God’s movement. Wisdom? fuggetaboutit ...
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