{"id":2996,"date":"2010-07-11T07:53:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T13:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesusneedsnewpr.net\/?p=2996"},"modified":"2011-05-03T16:24:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T16:24:24","slug":"an-app-to-help-you-communicate-with-atheists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesusneedsnewpr\/2010\/07\/an-app-to-help-you-communicate-with-atheists.html","title":{"rendered":"An app to help you communicate with atheists!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/03\/technology\/03atheist.html?_r=3&amp;th&amp;emc=th\">Read about this in the New York Times the other day&#8230; <\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>An explosion of smart-phone software has placed an arsenal of trivia at  the fingertips of every corner-bar debater, with talking points on  sports, politics and how to kill a zombie. Now it is taking on the least  trivial topic of all: God.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Publishers of Christian material have begun producing <a title=\"Recent and archival news about the iPhone.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/i\/iphone\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">iPhone<\/a> applications that can cough up quick  comebacks and rhetorical strategies for believers who want to fight back  against what they view as a new strain of strident <a title=\"More articles about atheism.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/a\/atheism\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">atheism<\/a>.  And a competing crop of apps is arming nonbelievers for battle.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read about this in the New York Times the other day&#8230; An explosion of smart-phone software has placed an arsenal of trivia at the fingertips of every corner-bar debater, with talking points on sports, politics and how to kill a zombie. Now it is taking on the least trivial topic of all: God. 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