Why do you find it disconcerting? Do you believe the thinking of atheists and Marxists is always wrong? Would you find it disconcerting for a Christian to use the words of altruistic atheists or Marxists to support his view that starving people ought to receive receive assistance? Would you say that atheists and Marxists can't be trusted when they state that the sum of 2 and 2 is 4.Candlepower wrote:I find it disconcerting when a Christian leans on an atheist to support his theological theory, and leans on a Marxist to support his economic theory.
I asseverate that it is valid to use anyone's thinking in support of any theory, as long as the thinking is rational.