“Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.”  So says Richard Dawkins, author of the God Delusion and godfather to the New Atheists.  This recent breed of atheist is no longer satisfied to pronounce religion as mistaken.  Believers aren't merely wrong, they're irrational.  And to such a degree that they very likely suffer psychological disorders.

But is it the believer who is irrational?  I don’t think so.

In February, I took the high schoolers of Crossline Community Church in Mission Viejo on their first Berkeley mission trip.  For students and staff, it was a rational test of Christianity’s truth claims.  It was also an occasion to humbly yet confidently demonstrate the utter irrationality of atheism. 

A powerful reductio ad absurdum from filmmaker Brian Godawa:  "A brilliant serial killer videotapes his debates with college faculty victims. The topic: His moral right to kill them."

Francis Schaeffer called this logical tactic "taking the roof off."  You simply adopt the other person's point of view for the sake of the argument and carry it out to its logical conclusion.  You demonstrate the absurd world one has to swallow given the practical outworking of their argument.  And it shows them they can't live in that world.