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Around a silent radio they sit. "Do you believe in music?" they discuss. Someone turns on the radio, but all they hear is static. "You see!" one of them says. Someone else starts fiddling with the dials. 

The Bible has the cheat codes. 

These days, it wouldn't be surprising to see a teenager wearing a shirt depicting Friedrich Nietzsche and the quote "God is dead." Does this fashion statement imply some kind of triumph?

Or in the immortal words of Courtney Love, "Don't be bitter and mean 'cause you don't fit in, it's a GIFT. Look at you. You've got your individuality, you don't have the herd instinct, you can read Nietzsche and understand it. Only dumb people are happy." This woman's claim to fame was dating a guy who killed himself. 

What would Mr. Nietzsche think of these fans of his? Here's a bit more of the infamous quote:  "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?" It doesn't seem he thought the death of God was something to gloat about. Later he writes: "Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?” That's a lot to consider. Soon after writing this, under the influence of his closest friends and family, Nietzsche received treatment for insanity. 

After the most self-destruction ever recorded in human history, came an era marked by intellectual self-aggrandizement. This philosophy was called "existentialism," by Jean-Paul Sarte, a fan Nietzsche. Sarte made this argument: "If God exists, I can't be free. I am free. Thus God does not exist." What would Courtney Love think?! Was Sarte's logic gifted, or just dumb and happy? 

Finally, in an interview about his involvement in the Nazi Party, Martin Heidegger said this:  and the most violent, purposefully meaningless, self-destructive 

After an era bunch of intellectual filth called "existentialism,"  the only two so-called "existentialist" philosophers worth reading are Nietzsche and Heidegger.  The last philosopher saying something worth hearing was Martin Heidegger. In an interview discussing his position in the Nazi party, Heidegger said "only a god can save us now." 

The knowledge problem: Today’s Christian apologist faces a unique challenge in that most people think that they know about Jesus. We have become used to an easy version of christianity, which is also easy to do without. Our technological society puts a lot of value in knowing things and having opinions about things, but the value in ideas and opinions is that they lead to doing things. 

The Church is an upturned ship, connecting earth and sky, in a world capsized. She floats on endless seas of starlight and music. Her sails are solid rock, flying the force of gravity. Her keel is rimmed in bells, barncled in gargoyles. For rudder, her compass is a cross, traversing the four corners of time, space, life, and dream, a taunt to the tempests of chaos and death.   

Look at this beautiful vessel, sailing boldly across the millennia! Stepping inside, we see she is ribbed in rainbow prisms, remembering the compassion of the master of the abyss. Yes, we now stand in Noah’s Arc, wrapped in the map of the promised land, babes in the womb of the Mother of God. The silence of this place is pregnant with music, and the vast organ is a harmonic engine mightier than any steamship. A million happy heroes built these walls. The vaulted ceiling is a poem writ in physics. This ship is a mountain. Her masts are forests, her cannons rain stars, her decks hold caves of wonder, and her hull is full of living dead. Here we glimpse the mind of God magnified by the hands of men. Here words grow like mustard seeds. From dust to dust, how could such a thing have drifted into being?!

Now a motley crew of fishermen assemble to feast on a catch unimaginable. They are mustered by a strange and wonderful captain. Indeed, you would not think a carpenter from the boondocks could have built this magnificent ship. What we call battle–the great leviathan blasting sonic booms to scrabble the the mind of the colossal squid would break who flails back with a myriad of barbed tentacles–this humble shepherd calls “play.” Yeah, fisherman, the best captain is he who speaks fish into being. His is the greatest yarn ever spun, have ye heard? He killed death, using his own life as bait. And now he fishes for fishermen, calling them to a strange and magnificent feast. Here the captain serves love, raw, in the flesh. His own flesh and blood. Sail the seas, me hearty, and tell me the gods you find. Broken gods, dead gods, gods whose dismembered body parts compose the world? Now, with wind at your back, sail ye home again. Here God lives. He loves you. He loves so much, he’d like for you to eat him. 

In his book, "The Everlasting Man," G.K. Chesterton argues that most arguments against the Biblical worldview are rooted in ignorance. An easy way to sound intellectual these days is to criticize the church. This is only possible, because it is popularly accepted that most people assume they are knowledgeable about the Bible without ever having read it.

What if we view our bodies and minds as technology, crafted and honed over tens of thousands of years of struggle. Then we can see that our modern technology is rapidly deteriorating our ability to imagine, dream, make music, dance, speak, write and listen.

Most people in the United States of America live boring lives, and disasters in far flung corners of the world becomes for them a form of entertainment. Every news story is designed to inspire fear, anger, or hate. This equations makes for many clicks and "likes," but the result is increasing despair.  

We need laws that don't encourage you to be an outlaw. We need few laws, that everyone follows. Like the ten commandments. Clear and concise. Everything you cannot do allows you to do everything else. 

Christianity has established that there is only one God. It's silly to be pagan now. You have to really dumb yourself down to be pagan. To not be truthful. of course if truth is true, there is only one truth. Being Christian can make you angry at the hatred. And it is intellectually popular for relativists to have objectivists to argue against in the armchair.   

The church is up for challenge.