The Atheist Case for Christ

The look on Josh’s face made clear he had never heard anything like what I had said. We had met at a dinner party, where I had learned that Josh was a student at a very liberal seminary. He loved Jesus, but hated evangelical Christianity and mistrusted most modern manifestations of the church. What was the earth-shattering opinion I laid on him? I explained that although I was an atheist, I thought everyone who could be a believing Christian should, and that those who can’t, like me, should still practice Christianity. When Josh asked me why an atheist would believe such a thing, I answered: “Even though I don’t believe in God, I do believe in his people.” This didn’t make sense to Josh, and perhaps it doesn’t make sense to you either. Allow me to explain. I grew up Christian, attending a dying Baptist church in an almost completely Catholic Latino neighborhood. There were maybe fifteen people in the pews every Sunday morning. All over sixty save for my mother and me.

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