Atheist Republic,

I want to be totally honest about why I am here from the beginning. I am a Christian seminary student and am taking an apologetics class. One of our assignments is to dialogue with an atheist about worldview and to write a paper about it. I found your forum and hoped that one of you would be kind of enough to have a dialogue with me.

I am not here to argue or anything of the sort. I just want to have an honest conversation about beliefs in a civil way, because I think that's what the world needs more of - honest, civil, discussion. I am also not here to try to convert anyone, I simply want to learn.

If you would be willing to engage in this conversation with me over email, please respond here or in a private message with your email to let me know. Or we can do it on this forum if that works better. If this sort of thing is inappropriate on this site, moderators by all means remove this post.

Thanks so much!