Source: www.nytimes.com
NEW YORK, U.S., July 2, 2010: Publishers of Christian material have begun producing iPhone applications that can bring up quick comebacks and rhetorical strategies for believers who want to fight back against what they view as a new strain of strident atheism. And a competing crop of apps is arming nonbelievers for battle, with many new apps to fight proselytizing.
In a dozen new phone applications, whether faith-based or faith-bashing, the prospective debater is given a primer on the basic rules of engagement and then coached on all the likely flashpoints of contention. Users can scroll from topic to topic to prepare themselves or, in the heat of a dispute, search for the point at hand — and the perfect retort.
Applications like the “BibleThumper” for iPhone, which boasts that it “allows the atheist to keep the most funny and irrational Bible verses right in their pocket” to be “always ready to confront fundamentalist Christians or have a little fun among friends.”