It is fun. My Christian credentials are still in tact. I can debate Christians from the inside, never making the direct atheist argument, but destroying faith’s foundations.
This week I ran into an evangelical guy who was very confident about Truth. It is singular. It is knowable. It is universal; and best of all he’s got it!
I directed the conversation toward ethics and then said, “I wish so much that Abraham had said to God, ‘No, I am not going to do that. Human sacrifice is unethical, filicide is unethical, and I don’t care who you are, I am not going to commit an evil act.” You should have seen his face! He was stunned at the idea that Abram and God were unethical!
I continued, “What if, Abraham failed the REAL test?” (Now my double-agent-speak begins) “What if God, being good, WANTED Abraham to say NO? What if he was supposed to decline? Unfortunately he didn’t. He took the boy, went to the mountain and was about to plunge the knife into Isaac’s heart when God finally stopped him. This was a complete ethical failure.” My friend was shaken. He’s going to do some thinking now.
The advantage of being under cover is that what I say is not immediately discarded in the atheist filter. My only problem is, what about the ethics of doing this? That’s what bothers me.