Not taking unbelief seriously (Pars to ponder)

This is the first in what will be a semi-regular occurrence here at The Payneful Truth. I’m calling these posts ‘Pars to Ponder’, and in each of them I’m going to quote a meaty and significant paragraph that has caught my eye, and then tease out its meaning and implications.

The first of them comes from a debate that raged nearly a century ago, but which touches on issues that are very much alive today.