What a scary world.

"The more noise that we make, the easier it is to accept us." -David Silverman, president of American Atheists.

What a smart man. Isn't that how everything immoral gets accepted into current society? This new interfaith movement, gay marriage, bans on home education, just to name a few.

You just need to get enough people talking about it, get the media involved, and get the idea implanted into young people's heads so that they grow up with these concepts as the norm. Think of all the children who are growing up now thinking that gay marriage is just another aspect of everyday society.

Pretty soon, rhetoric, the skill of logical persuasion, will become obsolete and powerless in convincing an increasingly wishy-washy generation that blurs all the lines. It will be easy for anyone to brush off your argument as your own set of truth, because, after all, everyone has a little bit of truth so we're all right in our own way, right?

Dr. David Wells commented to me last semester how in our postmodern age, our strategy has to shift slightly toward appealing to pathos, real life experiences, and the question of suffering. That's what the new generation will listen to because there are no longer any standards to appeal to. I think Rob Bell recognized this shift when he wrote Love Wins. It's going to be a difficult battle because God is a God of truth. How do you teach truth to a blurry generation?

Even so, I refuse to abandon the teaching of logic and rhetoric as an ideal part of education. It may have taken a back seat in this generation, but it is still our responsibility to raise a new truth-seeking crop of folks to fix the mess we've left behind.