{"id":40565,"date":"2017-04-18T00:15:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T03:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=40565"},"modified":"2017-04-18T02:21:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T05:21:54","slug":"alex-mcfarland-mikey-weinstein-debate-to-create-a-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/18\/alex-mcfarland-mikey-weinstein-debate-to-create-a-friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex McFarland: Mikey Weinstein Debate to Create a Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2017\/03\/31\/mikey-weinstein-plagiarizes-renowned-apologist-alex-mcfarland\/\">previously noted<\/a>, Dr. Alex McFarland recently participated in a four-person debate with Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein. Within the debate, it was refreshing to hear Dr. McFarland articulate a defense of the virtue of religious freedom, including <em>military<\/em> religious freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Mikey Weinstein didn&#8217;t say anything he hasn&#8217;t already said a dozen times over the past decade &#8212; except to directly contradict Dr. McFarland&#8217;s assertion that a Christian who witnesses to another doesn&#8217;t do so because they consider them less of a person or otherwise devalue <!--more-->their existence.<\/p>\n<p>As to why McFarland would debate Weinstein in the first place, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onenewsnow.com\/church\/2017\/04\/14\/mcfarland-debate-created-dialogue-with-atheist-attorney\">told OneNewsNow<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>McFarland says his purpose was to &#8220;build a bridge&#8221; with the atheist, creating a friendship that allows a future discussion about the gospel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wonder if Mikey Weinstein knows he has people who pray daily for his salvation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/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>As previously noted, Dr. Alex McFarland recently participated in a four-person debate with Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein. Within the debate, it was refreshing to hear Dr. McFarland articulate a defense of the virtue of religious freedom, including military religious freedom. Mikey Weinstein didn&#8217;t say anything he hasn&#8217;t already said a dozen times over the past decade &#8212; except to directly contradict [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[6197,20,96,6196,70,85,2,5218,7,17,10,171],"class_list":["post-40565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-alex-mcfarland","tag-atheism","tag-christian","tag-debate","tag-evangelism","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40565","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=40565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}