Scripture: Judges 1:1-7, 22-26, 33; 2:1-5
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction; jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
“If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God, except precisely that point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, then I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing him. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battlefront besides is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.”
Martin Luther
“You don’t always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it, too.”
Anne Lamott
“. . . always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect.”
1 Peter 3:15
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