How ought we to live?
Today I ended up having an hour-long amiable discussion at a bar with an atheist. It made me very sad to hear him speak of Christians and the Church in such bitter terms. What then, is to be our response as Christians?
A brother asked him [Poeen], “How ought we to live?” Poemen replied, “We have seen the example of Daniel. They accused him of nothing except that he served his God”
– Sayings of the Desert Fathers, 1:13