“When I talk to atheists and agnostics, most of them are genuinely curious. Some of them are really, really angry. But I know that 99.9 percent of the time they’re not angry about theism. They’re angry at some parent who used religion in a destructive way, or a pastor who hurt them . . . . This is a person Jesus loves, a person for whom Jesus died, a person who is hurting,” Moore said. “My responsibility is not to try to win the argument. My responsibility is to stand in [God’s] place and say, ‘Come, all you who are weary and heavy-laden and I will give you rest.’” He concluded, “There is no
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