I will be the first to tell you that I think atheism is bereft of logic and basic reasoning. And of course, we know what the Bible has to say regarding those who claim there is no God (see Psalm 14).  However, I have to admit that with the ascendancy of atheism and agnosticism in today’s culture, it has provided an avenue by which Christians can and should be able to provide an apologetic for both the Bible and Christianity.  Looking at the two instances that were mentioned previously, with Penn Jillette and Christopher Hitchens, it is debate like this, where there is an actual conversation and presentation of beliefs that are biblically-based that will have the most impact.  Doesn’t it seem as though a lot of atheists have their minds made up but have never really encountered genuine Christianity?  Doesn’t it also seem that there are a lot of believers who know what they believe but struggle to represent it well and are unable to articulate why they believe?  It seems to me that Christians have become so worried about what will be thought of them if they stand up for what the bible actually says, that we have started to not only represent the Gospel so very poorly, but have become a horrible caricature of what a Christian ought to be. Could it be that God is using the “New Atheism” as a rallying point for common-sense Christianity? I pray it is so. What would the world be like if Christians actually did what we were supposed to do, lived the way we are supposed to live?