Rachel Held Evans<\/a> recently said that her generation is ready to abandon the militant mindset of the culture wars that are typical of Ken Ham and others of his generation, I wonder if, while some of us are in the living room talking about peace and a change of Christian culture, we don\u2019t have the very next generation upstairs on the internet fighting World Wide Web War I, and adopting an approach to their faith (and\/or opposition to the faith of others) that seeks not to build bridges and communicate effectively, but to do as much harm to one\u2019s opponent from behind a veil of anonymity.<\/p>\nWhat do others think? Are young Christians, atheists, and others growing up in a context that might be more conducive to conversations from which all parties can learn, or in a context in which everyone is a soldier who engages in combat on the battlefields of chatrooms, blogs, YouTube and other web territories through which the front line passes? I fear that it is the latter, and what is most disturbing is that it is rare for those on either side to see just how much they are the mirror image of their opponents: different beliefs and assumptions, but the same weapons and tactics. And what is most ironic is that those who engage in such battles often seek to lay claim to banners such as \u201cChristianity\u201d, \u201creason\u201d and \u201cmorality.\u201d But as so often happens in warfare, in the heat of battle the codes and conventions are often ignored, as are\u00a0any principles that one originally went to war to uphold.<\/p>\n
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