Gd doesn’t care, and still extends His Creation and benevolence to the atheists. And Christians - these days no one besides other Christians* gives Christians any respect. But that is not why you are Christians; it’s not a popularity contest.
*we conservative Jews think you’re pretty awesome too
Its been open season on Christians for 2000 years. The difference now is that we have a pseudo Christian in the White House who refuses to speak up for Christians or defend Christians around the world as the slaughter moves forward. We had an anti Christian military that is actively working to purge Christians from its ranks in favor of militant homosexuals. Meanwhile, those militant homosexuals and Christians cannot coexist, the homosexuals will not allow it any more than Satan can forever coexist with God.
Gospel Mt 3:1-12
John the Baptist appeared, preaching in the desert of Judea
and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!”
It was of him that the prophet Isaiah had spoken when he said:
A voice of one crying out in the desert,
Prepare the way of the Lord,
make straight his paths.
John wore clothing made of camel’s hair
and had a leather belt around his waist.
His food was locusts and wild honey.
At that time Jerusalem, all Judea,
and the whole region around the Jordan
were going out to him
and were being baptized by him in the Jordan River
as they acknowledged their sins.
When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees
coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers!
Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Produce good fruit as evidence of your repentance.
And do not presume to say to yourselves,
‘We have Abraham as our father.’
For I tell you,
God can raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees.
Therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit
will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
I am baptizing you with water, for repentance,
but the one who is coming after me is mightier than I.
I am not worthy to carry his sandals.
He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
His winnowing fan is in his hand.
He will clear his threshing floor
and gather his wheat into his barn,
but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”
Dear Atheists..
If there is no god, and you are right. Nothing happens..
If there is a god, and I am right. You go to hell.
So.. I am having a hard time seeing your logic.
Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will. The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel. The former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely but thinking to afflict me in my imprisonment. What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice.
Do you remember Madaline Murray O’Hare? She founded the original American Atheist Movement. An obnoxious old bat who took her activism all the way to the Supreme Court, and made them take prayer out of public schools. She raked in tons of money from other anti-Christians, and got filthy rich. Then she came to a very bad end. She and her entire family were kidnapped, murdered and buried in the desert by some psycho who she had hired to manage her finances. It took the feds almost ten years to find the bones and bring the perp to justice. And then he died a year after they busted him. Is that Karma, or what?
Tragically, the federal government has grown immensely in size and scope and those that hate religion have insisted that religion get out of its way. As more areas and aspects of our public life are considered to be under federal authority, they insist all such areas be a haven of religious non-expression and neutrality since it is by extension somehow the government that must be separated from religion. The clear actual meaning of the First Amendment is their enemy, for it limits the federal government rather than religion. Hypocritically they seek to have the federal government advance their own philosophical world view on the grounds that it is non-religious and therefore the welcome epitome of what they argue the founders thought should be promoted by government--another point on which they are profoundly misguided or dishonest.
Christmas is the biggest day of the year for Atheists. Wonder why?
Pray America is Waking
Atheism is not a religion (by definition), and therefore is not protected by the 1st Amendment.
Church Lady says...
"How long was the line when YOU got in it?"
It’s sort of a waste of money since the majority of atheists are too young to have learned how to read and most of the rest who have made it as far as the typical skeptics’ ring arrested development age of about 13-15 are so full of themselves that they really don’t need any encouragement to come out of the atheist closet—well, unless they live in one of the many non-Christian countries where declaring that will get them killed.
In “Roughing It” Mark Twain describes the Mormons as victims of a pious fraud. He asserts that the basis for their religion is fraud, and it is fraud as far down as you care to look.
Having said that, he further asserts that the people who accept that pious fraud at face value are among the nicest you could ever meet.
That is basically how I feel about Christians. Nice folks, and many are honest believers. What a lovely fraud that helped make them so.
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Dear FFRF et al.: With every passing year, I grow less and less interested in indulging your theological daddy issues. You’re about as free-thinking as a group of North Koreans at an audience with Number Un, which makes you utterly predictable and utterly boring. How sad for you.