Posted on 06/04/2009 10:23:17 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Atheist Ads in Chicago Say Man Created God
by Christine Dao*
“In the beginning, man created God,” according to recent advertisements posted on 25 Chicago buses. The Indiana Atheist Bus Campaign targeted the country’s third largest city to espouse “the idea that man created God as well as all religions.”[1]
The ads were inspired by similar campaigns elsewhere, including...
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These people are roughly like an individual who, having taken a moral stand against the existance of breakfast, insists on pi$$ing on your waffles just to make a point.
I agree. They are boring me.
So-called atheists are usually just ‘anti-Christian.’
I’m just tired of these folks acting as if they’ve just “discovered” something.
To me, it’s a reflection of the state of perpetual adolescence our culture entered into in the 1960s and continues to wallow in.
I regret to say that perhaps it will take a disaster (economic, terror?) to reintroduce adulthood to America.
I always thought they were just lost.
sorry, I’m not a Darwinist.
I’m sure there wouldn’t be a peep of protest should we take out ads calling athiests a bunch of puss swilling sheep molestors either.
My latest branch of study is into the “nothing new under the sun” concept.
There isn’t. The same arguments have occurred throughout human history. The same “worldly wisdom” vs its opposite, “Godly wisdom”.
Pilgrim’s Progress, written over 330 years ago, has a passage in it about “if you have faith, society will tell you you’re ignorant in the sciences”. And we have people today that think they’re so clever and hip to come up with the idea.
The Creator vs. The Scientist
God was sitting in heaven one day when a scientist said to Him, “God, we don’t need you anymore. Science has finally figured out a way to create life out of nothing – in other words, we can now do what you did in the beginning.”
“Oh, is that so? Explain…” replies God. “Well,” says the scientist, “we can take dirt and form it into the likeness of you and breathe life into it, thus creating man.”
“Well, that’s very interesting… show Me.”
So the scientist bends down to the earth and starts to mold the soil into the shape of a man. “No, no, no…” interrupts God, “Get your own dirt.”
Just as man can’t see gravity, yet know that it is real, we may not see the Lord, but He is omnipotent, omnipotent, and omniscient.
Poor analogy. Gravity can be measured, and various gravitational theories can predict how it affects matter and energy to a precise degree. This is not the case with God, (if He/She/It even exists in the first place).
“Is it professing faith if I say Man created Odin, or Man created Jupiter?”
Depends on whether or not you believe it and why you believe it.
In short:
Too often, atheists scorn those who have faith in God but are unable to prove God’s existence, while at the same time the atheists say there is no God but they can’t prove it.
An atheist’s unprovable belief that there is no God is a matter of faith on the part of the atheist which weakens their attack on others who believe something based on faith.
If these are city buses, I would like to know if they would allow Christian Adds on the buses to counter the lie.
That was right after man created the universe, I’m sure.
Or did we create God first, then the universe?
Only ANTI-theists feel that need. And in so doing, they are expressing their beliefs about God, ironically becoming theists, expressing a theology.
The point is that you can’t see it, just as man can’t see air or wind. Scholars have confirmed the accuracy of God’s Word throughout history, just as they have confirmed the existence of Christ.
Whether or not a man chooses to believe in the Lord is another facet to the age old question, “Does God exist?”
Holding no views on a subject, either the person is ignorant and not studied the issue in question, or is deliberately deciding NOT to investigate the issue and determine what is correct and what is not.
To be truly a-political is to either be ignorant of the facts, or to be ignorant of the facts on purpose. I can excuse the former, but not the latter. Especially when the latter is held up as somehow being more virtuous than the people who actually have a belief, whatever it may be.
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