Since about the fourth grade, I have been interested in magic (of the illusion and prestidigitation variety, not the occultic). Although I wouldn't consider Penn & Teller among my favorite magicians, they put on an entertaining show and are good at their craft. Penn Gillete, he's the talkative half of the duo, is also an outspoken atheist. Don't know about Teller; as the silent half I'm not sure he is outspoken about anything.
Penn podcasts his musings and ramblings and I stumbled across one of them posted on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JHS8adO3hM
It is amazing to me how an atheist has a better grip on sharing the Gospel than most of us Christians:
“I don’t respect people who don't proselytize. If you believe that there's a heaven and hell, and people could be going to hell, or not getting eternal life or whatever, and you think, 'Well, it's not really worth telling them this because it would make it socially awkward'...How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize? How much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?"
So now I'm left to wonder how much of a hypocrite I am. Why am I so concerned about the "socially akward" situations when people's eternal lives are at stake? When I say that I love my brothers, does my failure to share Christ really mean that I hate them?
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