No, there are no longer street preachers in the US any more than there are wild Indians or buffalo roaming the prairies. Wiping out an entire species for their hide is a sick value system. Neither is there a Wild Wild gunslinging West w/o values anymore.
Seriously, you're comparing a made up, boxed in, mythical fantasy world called YA (it could vanish in a second) where everyone can be anonymous or say whatever they want, there are really no enforced rules, no absolutes, and you compare this to REALITY? I suppose one OPINION is as good as another to an atheist, since you don't use facts? How often do you see a fact? How delusionally worthless and pointless is that? Or is nobody interested in truth anymore, like in the EU, just shuttering churches because of stupid cultist or catholic practices? It was only a matter of time for them, but has little to do with Christianity. Christianity continues as though the atheist or cultist never existed. I wonder how it makes the atheists feel that they are only irrelevant, background noise; post-modern chattering?
If a lot of the trolls here acted that way on the street they would get hurt or die, not sure about those pansy Euro countries that open the doors to openly terrorist groups. Who is a terrorist? Someone with really messed up but identifiable values (opposite of Christianity). You come on my property here with a weapon evil intent and you die, straightforward, no discussion or litigation or jail sentence necessary. Those with evil intent KNOW that, cuts down on the attacks and name-calling when everyone's packin'. And isn't it amazing that several hundred million people did NOT die from guns yesterday, including the hundred million or so gun owners?
Guess who's got my back? Got anything like that in the EU, your own people's army? Scared of the ability to kill or the ignorance to kill? Whatcha gonna do when they come for you, wave a broomstick?
None of that bullcrap on the anonymous internet websites goes on here on the street -- open verbal attacks for no reason -- open verbal ridicule would smother them. It's like the "black thing" with slavery here or some religious bigot in authority lied to them, someone gets a false OPINION of themselves after being rejected but remains in denial, and the likes of this racism is seldom seen, like a woman scorned.
Aw, did I step on your poor little bitty ego? You got offended? Aw, ruined your life getting offended, didn't you? Admit it, learn from it and never go there again. You got more important stuff...
We've all been there. It's your attitude (the only thing they can't take from you), your choice, how you handle a crisis or an insult or a mishap. You can get mad and make it worse or you can figure out most things aren't even personal; effect me not. So what if you screwed me, you get the curse of a lie; not my problem. I can move on, you're waiting for a bomb or three to go off.
I've been married once before 18 years and kids, but the second time I gave them a test. I took this lovely but shallow woman out on my boat, knew I had not filled it up with gas, going 60 MPH across the lake (she was impressed, but it was smooth and safe sailing and close to shore), got miles from anyone and ran out of gas. Had thought about leaving the plug out too, but decided against it, would've been too much.
We're stranded, paddling to shallower water getting nowhere; wind blowing. We're screwed heading for the rocks on the far empty side of the lake; helpless. This woman had a mental breakdown, screaming stuff about we're going to die out here, thought I was going to have to slap her. She wasn't wrong, just not fit for relationship or reality; a screaming nightmare. She had no idea I had beer and food on-board, jumped to conclusions easily.
People are good at hiding who they are and how they got there, love to pretend, imagine if I were god. Give them an anonymous icon and a forum without rules, they can act out anything they want, mostly untrained children rebelling.
I rebelled with long hair in the Sixties and Seventies, grownups thought I was "disgusting" long-haired hippie, and Dylan taught us we couldn't trust anyone over 30. Took down the whole shee-bang with one word "why?" Anarchy, stupid, free drugs, free sex, free booze, geez, how much trouble can we get into now? Disgusting? But we never destroyed anything or attacked anyone, just Peace lovers.
It took a War on Drugs to stop us, what will stop this new atheist? Maybe a full scale organized war on untruth and oxymoronic fallacy? Google and Facebook and Twitter are still trying to figure that one out, it isn't just here or there, it's everywhere.
Forty years later, now I'm surrounded by rebellious militant trolls, how "disgusting". Why doesn't someone else DO something, like make more laws, deny more of our rights, hire more police?
Tell you what, I been deletin' those troll sonsabitches here; doing my part because they don't belong here, just helpin' 'em out the door to somewhere else they're not wanted. They're so delusioned about everyone else, logic cannot reach a mental obsession, and they can't even figure out when it's time to leave.
The apathy of the masses kills the country, the forum, all media, when truth disappears. You just whinin' or do you have a solution? Part of the solution or the problem?
Missed the last question you asked, "How does your church approach non-believers?" The word "approach" is an active verb. You mean aside from disaster relief for every hurricane that hit the coast, building several outreaches and food banks and turning around the poor parts of our city, and training and sending missionaries to build schools and churches in over 100 different countries? A church denomination of 15,000 can do a lot to help the needy, hungry, homeless, but obviously our mission is to help those w/o spiritual guidance when welcomed, to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ and the literal truth of the Bible. From a city of half a million people, our church has quite an impact throughout our city and the world. Our pastor has been televised regularly, so wherever Daystar reaches... a weekly Christian message can now be downloaded on an iPhone in Iraq and Iran; never before has Christian media reached these people, other than the hundreds of thousands of Bibles that have been smuggled in by donkey over the past four decades.
I'm openly bragging when I say our church has the most diverse congregation on the planet, proud to have more blacks, hispanics, asian (40 different countries represented at our church) and mixed couples and colors than ANY other church I've seen, proud to be almost rid of the shackles of racism. We get to see each other in a family setting; amazingly, they're just people (not "black" anymore, like in Europe, just other people--we have a deep racial problem in USA that the churches can fix). I've never been so enthralled as by the Asians, jaw-dropping honesty and responsibility; very serious. The Spanish Americans are decidedly the most fun (just my opinion). Trying to give you a feel for 50 States of a melting pot, with lots of foreigners near universities (mostly younger people, a vibrant growing youth movement actively reaching out). Church is an activity for us, not passive. Contrast this to an armchair pew sitting religious person following their regular Programming or playing with rosary beads being bored and feeling mighty righteous. Lazy hands come to ruin (Prov 21:25), ours are busy in outreach and staying ahead of the youth.
Our denomination is an Evangelical church or part of the charismatic movement (email if you want specifics). There will be all colors of people in heaven, might as well start getting along and used to each other now. They flock to us to attend our schools from all over the world. Yes, a Megachurch, where the Pastor takes a salary of about the same as the average citizen here (with housing and clothing for TV, we think he needs a plane), makes less money than you do probably, operates debt free, travels the world several times a year, busier than I want to be. Thank God for men that accept their calling with vigor and take it to a new level.
Addendum
See Comments below for an example of "The Disgusting Problem" here on YA in real time...