#apologetics

The longest way round is the shortest way home. ↗

— Apologetics Press

#home

We need to understand enough of modern thought to identify the ways it blocks us from living out the Gospel the way God intends, both in terms of intellectual roadblocks and in terms of economic and structural changes that make it harder to live by Scriptural principles. ↗

— Nancy Pearcey

#worldview #change

As Peter Berger has noted, the strategy of apologizing for Christian faith by trying to demonstrate its social utility is always eventually self-liquidating. Sooner of later people realize that a great many of the supposedly practical and secular benefits of the Christian religion can be had more easily without religion...The logic of practical atheism may well be more deeply ingrained in the evangelical tradition than conservatives perhaps have realized. ↗

— Craig M. Gay

#atheism #evangelicalism #faith

A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#inspirational #religion #inspirational

A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science. ↗

— Nancy Pearcey

#creationism #faith #faith