Why I'm doing this blog

Are you an atheist who listens to Christian talk-radio? If you are you will know how quickly you can get intrigued by it.
While most of the listeners of those program want to hear news and the world reviewed from their worldview perspective, I'm fascinated by listening to a worldview that isn't my own. In his program on March the 3rd Dr. Albert Mohler presented his audience with the question "Can the Church learn from the World?".
Of course it can.
You can reinforce your worldview perspective by listening to those you agree with, but you can reinforce it as well by listening to those you passionately disagree with. But there is a difference between both options. While you will stay on your own small worldview island if you choose the first possibility, you will be prepared for your political opponents if you choose the second possibility. I'm still amazed how many atheists call the Way of the Master program naively and stumble when they are asked whether they are a good person. You just need to listen to the WOTM program for one week to know that this 'good person test' is their standard for callers who aren't Christians. I guess the atheist callers in this program who aren't prepared for this test are the same kind of person who isn't prepared for the question: "What is your motivation to apply for this job?" in a job interview. One could make the point that if we would simply ignore them, we wouldn't need to know what to answer to their petty tests. True, but it's not just because of that. By listening to those programs you will get to know their worldview. You will get to know how they argue their positions and those points in their worldview they won't come down to on their own when you are debating them.
I hope to help atheists who want to engage theists with this blog. I also hope that Christian readers of this blog are encouraged to look beyond their worldview island as well. Learning from atheists why they are atheist is something very different than learning from Albert Mohler or Todd Friel why those atheists are atheist. Just like learning why both mentioned are Christians is different when you learn it from than, than if you would learn it from atheists.
And there is of course a third purpose. If you listen to Christian radio programs you sometimes find yourself agreeing, regularly laughing and quite often wanting to call and correct the host. I really thought about doing that before. But if I would call every time I would want to correct them I would pretty soon be a pain in their neck. Until now I very much contented myself by writing e-mails to those programs. I'm sure that they are read by someone and my mails have already been read 3 times on the Way of the Master program but they can't read every mail sent in. This blog shall give vent my comments, my critiques and moments I found funny.

And last but not least I guess that both shows are greatly interested what people who aren't of their worldview perspective think about them. Todd Friel tends to say that the world must think he's a knucklehead (thank you for teaching me this nice world Todd) he might be surprised that this isn't exactly what I think about him.