Today I had an ugly experience with my collegues. They were mocking the faith again, throwing around nasty jokes and ignorant statements. I didn't know what to do.
There wasn't even room for me to lay a foundation to work from; the mocking just came from all directions, so fast.

When the topic of religion or anything related comes up, things just turn so ugly so fast. I felt quite sad and backed against the wall.
I don't even think my collegues are open for being corrected in their views; and I don't think resurrection evidence is going to change that either.

It was very frustrating that this happened. It isn't the first time either.
Every new collegue I got so far has been somewhat hostile towards Christianity. It's so tiring to be in these situations.

Adressing a skeptic is one thing, but dealing with people who really don't care about knowing the facts is a whole other business. *sigh*

( René )

My experience with skeptics is that they have a whole host of objections (usually the typical ones that are easily answered by this quiz for example). One type of argument would not be enough to convince them; though to be fair, NO argument ever seems to convince them :P
It is still a matter of the heart and even if people were to acknowledge that they can't get around Jesus' ressurection, they'd still need to repent of their sin and accept Jesus as their savior and live a changed life.

I think that these phrases are extremely useful for philosophers and theologians (and for even casual laymen like myself) who are trying to neatly arrange some of the facts into categories from which to draw upon in witnessing to others. This can be done though, without referring to the formal category itself.

For example, I find the "minimalist facts" approach to be extremely helpful and is quite an appropriate phrase for capturing the body of evidence attached to that phrase. But I don't necessarily toss the phrase around in a conversation unless I think the situation calls for it.

I might add though, that some of these categories are fairly well-labelled. The names aren't merely convenient, but often capture the concept quite well.