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Michelle replied to the topic Controversial Topics in the forum Themes 7 years, 5 months ago
@hope-ann – Help me understand what you mean by ‘straw man.’ I have never heard that term before.
I’d personally have to agree with Daeus on this one. I’d love to see more books that handle issues like this, but then again some people can write things like this and some people can’t. It depends on a person’s God-given gifts and convictions. Also, as Daeus said, Christians don’t usually get involved with any of these subjects, and therefore know little about them or simply don’t want to know anything about them because they are hard topics to understand and think about from a Christian perspective. We try to shut out anything that does not agree with our worldview because it’s hard to deal with, and we don’t have the time or the money or the patience or the strength to take on such a topic in our eyes. …. There’s my two cents. I hope you enjoyed it. XDI think you and @daeus-lamb nailed the reason on the head. In general, Christians as a whole don’t want to or don’t know how to engage with these topics. And those of us who do engage must be careful not to allow the world’s view of these things to influence or negate what the Bible says. It’s easier to throw the topics under the general label of evil and not search out why God calls them such. He always has a reason for WHY He classifies certain things as evil, and I would like to see more authors, fiction writers, address these topics.
Do any of you feel like the market (Christian and non-Christian) is looking for stories like these? Are they looking for the kind of stories that try to give a Biblical answer to today’s cultural hot buttons?
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