Posted on 12/16/2008 4:42:07 AM PST by Kaslin
Atheists from England to the West Coast of America are stepping up their efforts this year to make a bigger antagonistic splash on the Christmas scene. From London and Washington, D.C., buses to Colorado billboards, skeptics are skewering religions with little respect to the adherents of the religions.
At the forefront is a group's government-sanctioned posting of a sign by a Nativity scene in the Capitol of Washington state (and now also in Wisconsin and Illinois): "At this season of THE WINTER SOLSTICE may reason prevail. There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds."
I am a patriot, and I believe that atheists are free to believe, speak and post whatever they want. This is America, and that's their First Amendment right. But to do so with harassment and hatred under the guise of free speech is despicable. An anti-religious poster filled with spite is in no way equal to a religious symbol, such as a Nativity scene. Where are the political correctness police when religious followers are the victims?
If such words were written against any social minority group, protests would be ubiquitous. But anti-religious bigotry is in vogue these days. Still, there is absolutely no justification for these atheists' written revile. And if they want to keep using hate-filled language against theists -- particularly Christians -- then they shouldn't be surprised when they meet up with a yuletide (written) roundhouse kick.
Anyone can spew disdain for religion, but is that what America's Founders created our rights for? Just because they post such verbal vomit, does that demonstrate intellectual superiority or the type of moral decency our Founders hoped we would perpetuate?
What profit would there be if I posted a taunt that atheists had no vital part in the founding of our country? As Benjamin Franklin noted in his 1787 pamphlet for those in Europe thinking of relocating to America: "To this may be truly added, that serious religion, under its various denominations, is not only tolerated but respected and practiced. Atheism is unknown there."
What profit would there be if I posted a claim that atheists are un-American because they try to suppress theists' freedom of religion by the false notion of separation of church and state?
What profit would there be if I posted the accusation that atheists are imprudent because they exhaust too much time trying to convince everyone else of the absence of a being who doesn't exist?
What profit would there be if I posted a retort that atheists are igmos because they try to replace Christmas with winter solstice celebrations, which are ancient pagan festivals entrenched in polytheistic religions?
What profit would there be if I posted that atheism hides behind a false pretense that it is scientific when eminent scientist Paul Davies -- the renowned British-born physicist, agnostic and professor of cosmology, quantum field theory and astrobiology -- once spoke against the certainty of atheism to Time magazine (in the column "Science, God, and Man"): "Agnosticism -- reserving judgment about divine purpose -- remains as defensible as ever, but atheism -- the confident denial of divine purpose -- becomes trickier. If you admit that we can't peer behind a curtain, how can you be sure there's nothing there?"
What profit would there be if I posted that atheists are totally blind to the pristine beauty and ordered complexity of creation, so they cannot see the hand of a Creator? As the Bible pointed out 2,000 years ago, "For since the creation of the world, God's invisible qualities -- his eternal power and divine nature -- have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse."
What profit would there be if I posted the fact that atheists denigrate every religion and prayer that ever has been offered? To say God doesn't exist is to say every religious leader in every age was delusional at best. And it also is to say that not one prayer on any continent in any era of human history has been answered. That premise alone rules atheism preposterous and foolish.
Finally, what profit would there be if I posted that I agree with my friend Mike Huckabee, who said on his book tour via Fox News that atheists shouldn't be fighting for a holiday in December when they already have a holiday: April Fools' Day (a holiday also grounded in sacred Scripture, "The fool says in his heart, 'There is no god'")?
We all know I would be labeled as an extremist, irrational and a bigot if I posted any of the preceding ideas. Yet atheists do and get away with First Amendment murder.
I'd like to remind our nation that it was only a short time ago when Ronald Reagan freely spoke for the majority by explicitly and passionately conveying belief in Jesus Christ during his presidential Christmas addresses. Compare the message in his Dec. 23, 1981, speech with that of the present day, when the very term "Christmas" is being erased from every corner of culture.
As long as different displays line the corridors of Washington state's Capitol like Christmas potpourri, let me posit this last idea as a final pre-Christmas posting. At the base of the bust of George Washington (which stands between the atheists' winter solstice sign and the Nativity scene in the Washington state Capitol), I suggest the posting of one more sign, which would contain the wisdom from George Washington's farewell address: "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens."
(Note: In the spirit of Christmas, Chuck is giving away a free chapter of his current New York Times best-seller, "Black Belt Patriotism."
Atheists seem to be so miserable.
Threaten to take away Christmas, easter holidays from the govt employees and all this nonsense will be over!
If you want to know God...pray and listen. It is not complicated.
In a free country, idiots, morons and, yes, even atheists are free to make whatever jackass of themselves they please.
But, being jackasses doesn’t entitle them to a holiday . . . . .
. . . . . . . of ANY kind!!!
I think every Athiest should show up to their place of employment on December 25th. It’s a Christmas Holiday, in remembrance of the birth of Jesus Christ. Since Athiests do not believe, why should they have the day off?
I’m a Christian, I certainly do not take time off for Rammadan.
They have nothing, and they don’t want anyone else to have anything either. So sad. . .
No news is good news to them, I guess.
....the very vocal anti-religous atheists certainly make a ruckus over something they don’t believe .......my 7th grade teacher Sister Theresa said it best about complainers———empty barrels make the most noise......
the war on Christmas, by unbridled, adolescent, psychotic punks, continues with impunity.
IMHO
You know Him better!! Of course God is there like everywhere else.
You have the benefit of revelation. They are taking a different path. As much as they make me shake my head, what happens to them is between them and God Himself...
We have plenty of work to do in spirit. Rejoice for your understanding and most of all, for your personal relationship with Him. If not for that life would be pretty gray(at least for me).
Gray...The poor Atheist! I'm off the soapbox now. Honestly, I cannot fathom the secularist. I think Jesus would have hope for them, not spiritual pride towards them. We are human and spiritual pride creeps in but squelch it!
Atheists are like 2nd graders who dont believe in Santa Claus.
They have lost their own belief and now they want to ruin it for all the other kids.
I used to think of them as individuals without a good religious background,who had once prayed , didnt get what they prayed for and lost their belief.
Now they are organised? Atheism has become a religion of its own? A religion of disbelief with the goal of destroying all belief? To what purpose except an effort to prove to themselves that they are right. If they can destroy the faith of others they somehow feel better that they dont believe.
Its like scientists trying to prove their theory of Global Warming by getting other scientists to forget about facts and listening to the opinion of others.
God already told us that in Psalm 14:1, and 53:1 - "The fool has said in his heart, There is no God!" He knew they would want their own special day.
Winter Solstice has Pagan Roots
Therefore their religion is Paganism.
Not very anti-religion these atheists are, are they? LOL
It’s amazing as to how afraid they are of God.
Atheists from England to the West Coast of America are stepping up their efforts this year to make a bigger antagonistic splash on the Christmas scene. From London and Washington, D.C., buses to Colorado billboards, skeptics are skewering religions with little respect to the adherents of the religion
I used to make double-wages working Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, and so on. Easter Vigil and Christmas Eve were the big church choir nights, and then I’d sit at work and snooze the next day, just in case the phone rang.
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