{"id":28097,"date":"2014-01-24T01:19:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T04:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=28097"},"modified":"2016-10-01T23:45:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T02:45:57","slug":"campus-crusade-hosts-mrffs-atheist-paul-loebe-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/24\/campus-crusade-hosts-mrffs-atheist-paul-loebe-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus Crusade Hosts MRFF&#8217;s Atheist Paul Loebe (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Loebe, the former active duty Marine who is now Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein&#8217;s newest &#8220;special assistant,&#8221; was recently one of two atheists invited to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepicenter.info\/\">The Epicenter Experience<\/a>, a college ministry event put on by Cru (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ, <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/25\/campus-crusade-for-christ-to-become-cru\/\">a frequent MRFF target<\/a>). The &#8220;conversation&#8221; was led by Doug Pollock, and Loebe was (invited and) accompanied by fellow atheist Adam Hann (also a military veteran).<\/p>\n<p>Doug Pollock&#8217;s &#8220;specialty&#8221; is helping Christians &#8220;increase the quality and the quantity of their spiritual conversations.&#8221;\u00a0 In other words, how to talk to non-Christians <em>well<\/em>, which is a natural first step toward evangelism.\u00a0 Pollock&#8217;s conversation with Loebe and Hann was, in essence, a demonstration.<\/p>\n<p>The video of the &#8220;conversation&#8221; (below), <a href=\"http:\/\/new.livestream.com\/accounts\/1739808\/events\/2665731\">provided by Cru<\/a>, is actually fairly interesting (and its a fair bit better quality than the &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org\/2014\/01\/mrff-special-projects-manager-paul-loebe-speaks-to-campus-crusade-for-christ-cru-conference\/\">pirated audio<\/a>&#8216; the MRFF published). Much of the discussion was how Christians had caused the two atheists to feel, from experiences <!--more-->with a patronizing faith to those who don&#8217;t know their own Bible &#8212; which, coming from atheists, naturally served as a direct object lesson for the Christians in the room.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, Doug Pollock even said<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This may rock your world&#8230;but you may be being used by God right now&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kudos to atheists who can challenge you to be a better Christian (Pollock takes the stage approximately 8 minutes into the video):<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/new.livestream.com\/accounts\/1739808\/events\/2665731\/videos\/39939110\/player?width=480&amp;height=252&amp;autoPlay=false&amp;mute=false\" height=\"252\" width=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-action=\"like\" data-size=\"small\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-share=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Loebe, the former active duty Marine who is now Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein&#8217;s newest &#8220;special assistant,&#8221; was recently one of two atheists invited to The Epicenter Experience, a college ministry event put on by Cru (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ, a frequent MRFF target). The &#8220;conversation&#8221; was led by Doug Pollock, and Loebe was (invited and) accompanied by fellow atheist [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[4589,69,96,4591,4592,4590,85,2,5218,7,4039,10],"class_list":["post-28097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-living","tag-adam-hann","tag-campus-crusade","tag-christian","tag-cru","tag-doug-pollock","tag-epicenter-experience","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-paul-loebe","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}