Posted on 12/08/2013 12:35:03 PM PST by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
Imagine if an activist group blanketed a major city with 55 billboards urging that illegal aliens go back to their own country. Or that homosexuality is a crime against nature. Or that Muslims are responsible for most of the world’s terrorist attacks.
The mainstream media would be all over the story. Organizations – like La Raza, like GLAAD, like CAIR – would organize protests. President Obama would publicly condemn the billboards (while defending illegals, homosexuals and Islam). And the sponsors of the billboards would be branded a “hate group.”
Yet, there has been little outrage over the 55 billboards that started going up last week in Sacramento, California that mock Christians, that blaspheme God. They are sponsored by the so-called Freedom From Religion Foundation, an atheist organization based in Madison, Wisconsin that truly is a hate group.
“I don’t believe in Odin, either,” sneers one billboard. “Studying the bible made me an atheist,” disparages another. “Without god I am full of love,” declares still another.
Yet, Judy Saint, director of FFRF’s newly formed Sacramento chapter, insists that the 55 billboards are not anti-Christian, not anti-God. They just thought it would be a good way to encourage atheists on the down low to “come out of the closet”
“There are thousands of us here,” she said, “and we are reaching out to them because it’s such a maligned minority. If the message at all is to believers, it would be that we are good moral people, too.”
But, by her own words, Saint reveals the nefariousness of the atheist movement in this country.
She suggests that atheists are an unfairly maligned minority. But if the noisome atheist community – which constitutes less than 1 percent of the U.S. population – is maligned, it’s because of their attacks on Christians by in-your-face atheist groups like FFRF.
Indeed, not only are the atheists putting up 55 billboards that bash the religious faith of more than three-quarters of Americans, they have deliberately chosen to do so during the Christmas season, defecating on a holy day on which Christians celebrate the birth of Christ the Lord.
Saint also claims that she and her fellow atheists are both “good” and “moral.”
But there is no good in the atheists’ (un)holy war against Christianity, using billboards as their weapon of attack. And there is no morality in the atheist community’s endorsement of such practices as same-sex marriage.
Indeed, one of FFRF’s 55 billboards features Saint, the atheist hate group’s Sacramento front woman, and her wife with the message: “Reason. Equality. Doing Good – All without gods.”
That’s the arrogance of atheists that they inherited from their father, the devil. They think that “doing good” means they are good. But the Bible advises that their good works, whatever they might be, “are as filthy rags” before the Almighty.
The Word of God also tell us, everyone, “There is none righteous, no not one.”
The difference between unrighteous Christians and unrighteous atheists is that Christians are born again; their sins covered by the blood of Christ. Atheists, on the other hand reject Christ, and shake their fist at God.
And for their unrepentant, unforgiven sin, the unGodly will spend their existence beyond this fallen world in everlasting torment.
Christmas is the biggest day of the year for Atheists. Wonder why?
Pray America is Waking
Man by using literal count in The Bible has existed over 10,000 years. Yet in the past 100 years most of the technology some of which either by nuclear explosion or by the alteration man has done in laboratories can destroy the world many times over. What has stopped this? Anyone have the answer? What has stopped some mad man from ending life as we know it? Who/What has stood in the way to prevent it?
The stars, the distant suns and planets, we can see with our own eyes what holds them in place? What set their boundaries? By what means were they all created? What gave us life? Better yet what gave us the abilities no other portion of this creation has which is the ability to think, reason, feel emotion good or bad, love or hate? What gave us conscience and knowing right from wrong? The laws of science shows us both attracting and opposing forces. In nature we also see that when a void is created it is filled very quickly. The same laws apply spiritually.
We accept the laws of science as being fact. Although we can not see the air we breath we accept the fact that it is there. We don’t think twice about flipping a light switch and light being emitted because our own action of flipping a switch began a reaction bringing forth light. By what authority does the electrons flow? Why are you so sure that when you flip the light switch that light will happen? You certainly can’t see the electrons. Yet you believe they are there. You believe not because you yourself have seen electrons but because someone taught you this. Not even the best of minds knows how our universe was formed much less this planet and the life on it. The perfect balance which mans best efforts at detecting life elsewhere have not shown this to exist.
How come is it that many Prophecies are often fulfilled not by the ones who believe in GOD or even believers who are doing an action deliberately. Moses is the one who wrote the first four books of the Bible. The first book in The Bible {Genesis} written about 3300 years ago is the beginning of prophecies that would give hope for mankind.
If earth is billions of years old and man perhaps even as old as a million why did the point of technology we live in today take so long? If mankind is but 10,000 years old same question? Look in Egypt. There was certainly the means to construct massive structures moving massive weight and stacking it.. Later the Romans enjoyed a highly engineered water system. I’ve had Astronomers and we’ve certainly had men with the skills and abilities to forge, mold, shape, most metals for use.
Why suddenly in the past 100-125 years has mans knowledge, communications, and travel abilities suddenly vastly increased? Who told Daniel 2600 years ago about the times this world would face. Though Daniel could not fully comprehend how he was told as recorded in Chapter 12. Yet Daniel believed it in faith.
GOD’s Word The Holy Bible is a book of hope for mankind. It shows our creation, our fall, our promised salvation for those who believe, and GOD’s plan for the future which if you study closely is now unfolding at a very rapid rate. I don’t have to believe the world is billions of years old or 10,000 years. I believe GOD who created the stars I can see and this earth I live on can do both. His creation alone is proof of His existence. Yet His Word existed before this world was formed. Maybe in the next phase of my life I’ll understand the when and how. Then again why do I need to know?
I’m just amazed people have more faith in a light switch than The Divine Being we call GOD who created the heavens and the earth giving us life as well. If there is light somewhere there is darkness. If there is good someplace else there is evil another. It stands to reason there is GOD who gives life, hope, and loves us enough to offer us it eternally, then there is also one somewhere who hates us, offers only a false hope good through our next sinful pleasure, wants to destroys or relationship with GOD just as He himself did in his rebellion against GOD before the earth was formed, and in doing so torment us in eternity. GOD gives us a choice of which.
Nope, it was an employee and he killed her, her son, and her granddaughter, to cover up a theft. Yea they were hacked up as you said. Her surviving son the one over which she filed her lawsuit is a minister.
Atheism is not a religion (by definition), and therefore is not protected by the 1st Amendment.
that is actually easy to believe, therefore you have no responsibility for anything. What is more difficult to believe is what you see around you. Look into space with your eyes or through the Hubble telesope, look at the zillions of things that you see there, look at a drop of water through a microscope, look at the face of a baby, look at an earthworm, .........and all these things just happened to appear all by themselves......one day there was nothingness and "poof" the next day there is all that there is.....I couldn't even begin to imagine having that much faith....you are something special to believe that strongly.
Therefore...what, exactly?
I tend to disagree about atheists not being “happy.” This discussion could get psychological so to avoid that, I will bring joy and hope into the mix.
As a Christian, I have fought depression. My faith in God and my relationship to Him is often my only source of joy. My hope comes from thinking about when Jesus rules this world and our many children will once again be playing outside without fear and we will not have to ever lock a door again. Heaven is going to be so wonderful that I can’t even imagine what that life will be like so I stick to what I know will be here and enJOY it.
Other things make me happy. Ice cream, a wonderful photo, my silly alien looking rat terrier, thinking about living in the mountains again, and a white Christmas. Joy is what Christians have, anyone can be happy.
Therefore nothing, it doesn't apply to them. Like the plumbing code doesn't apply to tree surgeons. Religious freedom is the freedom to worship God. It doesn't include the freedom not to worship God - you don't need a 1st Amendment for that. In addition, not doing something is not the same as doing something. So atheism is not the opposite of religion - atheism has nothing to do with religion, and should not be included in any category with it. Rejecting God is not a religion.
Of course, I'm not talking about the free speech part of the 1A, that's universal.
Let me make sure I understand...are you arguing that a law mandating the worship of God would be constitutional?
I believe the decision can work in the favor of Christians since disallowing the teaching of theistic explanations in publicly funded venues can now be said to be establishing atheism as the official religion in those venues.
Atheism can’t have an ultimate crime. There is no final arbiter of who deserves what. Its all just Nietzsche on steroids. Out of the chaos, you impose your own order. If you win, or if you lose, there is no deserving. There is only a temporary hanging on to temporary goals, and goals that have no accessible meaning. They just are.
So if Jeff Dahmer likes to put people in his freezer, we only say he’s wrong because we don’t personally benefit from having people like him in the neighborhood. But to “deserve” something is to infer an arbiter, and there is none, according to atheism.
It’s one of the reasons I’m no longer an atheist. I know there is such a thing as “deserve.” It stands there on the otherwise unblemished surface of a supposedly pure rationality and demands an accounting. We base nearly everything on it, yet every explanation of it that omits the idea of the Ultimate Arbiter can be shown to be self-contradictory. It is maddening. Or else perhaps instructive.
We have a Constitution of negative rights. Therefore the only thing the Constitution can do is bar an attack on religion - not mandate one.
Atheism is not a religion - it is the rejection of religion. Therefore it does not come under th auspices of Constitutional protections, because it is something that is not done, rather than something that is done.
To flip the concept wold destroy the Consititution. It would be to legalize the government power to punish someone for what they don't do. Like if you were punished for not buying healthcare insurance, for example.
Oh wait...
I didn't know that. Bummer. I disagree with the ruling on ground of contradictory definitions. It's one thing to uphold freedom of speech about religion, it's another thing to define the rejection of religion as a religion. The first is protected speech, the second is an oxymoron applicable solely to the incorporation of religions. If you want to make a corporation that stands for an attitude towards God, and if you define a religion as a corporation that has an attitude towards God, then I suppose you could allow a corporation that has an attitude towards God of rejecting God. But even for the Twilight Zone world of corporate defintions, this still breaks the logic bank, IMHO.
For the discussion, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Atheism is a religion: Kaufman v. McCaughtry
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Well, I don’t care what they think or ruled. They are wrong, and that’s a fact!
Human beings do make their own rules. What is to say that they have rules they follow. And if these rules lead to bad results, then presumably they ought to change them. So we must then ask how should they make rules that get rules that enough men will follow to get a good outcome. Or do we even use the word “should?”
Are you an atheist, RobbyS?
You obviously disapprove of a fundamentalist approach that starts by insulting people? So when atheists do it, why condone it?
No.
As I said earlier, I view both sides with equal indifference. While I find the billboards from each side to be in poor taste, it's simply not that big of a deal.
You have a great sense of humor. All the best to you.
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