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When it comes to talking with non-believers about moral issues, Christians have often been derided as being intolerant.  This objection has some basis in fact, unfortunately, as all of us know some highly legalistic and self-righteous (professing) Christian that had a laser focus on the faults of others.  Well, this isn't, in fact, true biblical Christianity.  A self-righteous Christian is a contradiction in terms.  More still, a believer, saved by grace, is more worried about how their own sins impact others than the shortcomings of their neighbor.  

Lastly, we shouldn't be bullied into laying down our "sword," which is the Word of God just because others object to it.  The question is:  by what standard do we or anyone else appeal to when discussing issues of morality and right and wrong?   A Christian should be unabashedly biblical in their thinking.  This is actually the opposite of arrogance and is, rather, sweet humility, as it grounds reasoning in the Lord, rather than mankind.  In this way we'll see that the atheist is actually unable to stand on their own ground when it comes to moral reasoning and has to borrow Christian premises to make their point.