Last week I noticed a headline on the Friendly Atheist titled Evangelist Wants to Know If Youâ??d Say â??Yes, Iâ??m a Christianâ? with a Gun to Your Head. This brought to mind what I was taught as an evangelical childâ??that if anyone ever asked me to deny the faith, I was to refuse, even to death. We read stories of Christians martyred in other countries because they refused to spit on the Bible or renounce their faith.
But today Iâ??m a mother. And you know what? If someone put a gun to one of my childrenâ??s heads and told them to say that they hate their mother, I would want them to say it. If God is our father, shouldnâ??t he prefer that his children live than that they die, even if that means they are compelled to verbally renounce him in order to live, while continuing to embrace him in their hearts?
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