Making postmodernism look good

What Stanley Fish has discovered is not so much that 95% of NYTimes commenters are atheists, but more fundamentally that they are positivists.

Comments

[Stephen M. Bauer]

In reference to atheistic comments cited here, but also found everywhere.

I have serious doubts that engaging in a dialogue of reason will get
anywhere with most anti-Christians. Our opponents are not necessarily
rational. A dialogue of reason would surely sway them to our side, if
they were open to reason. The problem is that they have taken their
positions a priori. Anything that is reasonable that runs counter to
their position just causes them to dig their heels in even deeper.
They are not able to argue against Christian reason precisely because
Christianity is the most reasonable. In the face of reason, the only
resort of the anti-Christians is to make more extreme accusations,
citing falsehoods and out-of-context historical events that they do
not even understand. The most effective apologetic is to be the
change we want to see—to follow Jesus--and that is precisely what the
church has taught for 2,000+ years.

A few anti-Christians that I know are actually very good hearted. I have started
to suspect is that the role and position of the both the church and
individual Christians actually does resonate with them—they do see
that Christianity is good and the best answer to the world’s and their
own problems. But because they have taken a position a priori, and
have too much at stake in it, ego-wise, they are impelled to fight it
tooth and nail. (And yes, someday, they may eventually accept the
grace that is constantly being offered to them).

For some, being anti-Christian is merely adolescent rebellion or the
fashionable anti-establishmentarianism of the college/graduate
student. And for some who become professors and teach the next
generation they never grow out of it—they become the enforcers of
intolerance and political correctness--a legacy of the 60’s I’m afraid
to say. But I’m stretching myself a bit, as I can’t really speak from
experience about the college environment these days.

Of the contemporary anti-Christian environment, I wonder if this is
what it was like in the early centuries of Christianity, in the Roman
Empire?

WWJD?
(I think we know.)