This verse is the most progressive statement of its age.
Galatians 3:28 There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male and female; since you are all one in Christ Jesus.
The statement was so against the beliefs of most people that it took hundreds of years for people to finally institute it into law. Even now most of the world does not believe in equality for all.
Atheism is irrational. At least this guy gets the importance of belief in God, if not the reality of God.
To know Him is to love Him.
Anyone who is reading this who is not already His: get to know Him.
"Ask and you shall receive." "Lord, let me know You." Keep asking.
Abandon whatever evil you have in hand, and turn to Him. He says "Follow Me." You say "Yes." That's it.
The quote about being “woke” doesn’t work. Wokeness and Christianity are antithetical in my understanding. Woke is based on identity politics and class conflict and does not see humanity without those two lens, does not see the universality of man as man.
There is the distinction between believing and knowing, but those two words can be used in an indistinguishable way. Christianity asks you to believe. With belief you can be riddled with doubt at times. True knowing only comes when you are with God. This makes sense for agnostics but, perhaps, not atheists. The atheist claims he knows. But his “knowledge” is really a faith, because true knowledge of this sort cannot be had. Unless the atheist has checked out everywhere in the universe, he wouldn’t know for sure if God is out there or not.
Thanks for posting.
Without saying it, some of them seem to be understanding that atheism brings no moral code, in fact the opposite - ‘anything goes’ devolves a population.
Then there’s Islam. They may also be realizing that the only thing standing between them and an Islamic beheading is a Christian.
For so long we’ve heard about all the bad things in Christian history ‘because’ of Christianity. The truth is that man was vile, Christianity brought us OUT of the darkness, it wasn’t the cause - which took time.
So if Islam scares them and atheism has no answers then where is the truth? They realize the answer is staring them in the face but they still won’t accept it.
But he isn’t shy about saying that as a Jew he views any weakening of the American Christian consensus with alarm.