Fight the Atheist Revolt!

Militant, fundamentalist atheists have been coming out of the woodwork lately, attacking Christianity. Granted, they are still using the same old, tired and shallow agruments that have been refuted over and over again. But here’s some stellar resources I have found perfect for refuting their vain attacks, which are sure to increase with Christmas approaching:

Former atheist Lee Strobel, who wrote The Case for Faith, The Case For a Creator and The Case for Christ, returns with a powerful volume that refutes the shallow attacks on the Bible’s authenticity and the attempts of skeptics to rewrite history.

Theologian Ken Samples returns with a follow up to his Without a Doubt: Answering the 20 Toughest Faith Questions (see below). Here he tests various worldviews, including Christianity and puts them to the test of logic and reason. An accessible book, yet it will engage your brain.

http://www.amazon.com/World-Difference-Christian-Truth-Claims-Worldview/dp/0801068223/

Samples’ powerful Chirstian defense: One of the unique aspects of Christianity is that it stands up to honest intellectual scrutiny. Without a Doubt offers solid, succinct answers to twenty classic questions that challenge the Christian faith, including: -God's existence -creation and the universe -the historical veracity of Scripture -Jesus Christ's true identity -God as Trinity -faith vs. science -God and evil -

"Samples exhibits the virtues of charity and intellectual integrity along with a deep understanding of the sorts of challenges to the Christian faith that are offered in our contemporary world and must be met by the serious Christian. Without a Doubt is a wonderful work."--Francis J. Beckwith, Baylor University, author of Relativism "

“I wish [this book] had been available when I was an atheist—it would have saved a lot of time in my spiritual journey toward God!” –Lee Strobel, author, The Case for Christ and The Case for Faith

“If you’re still a skeptic after reading I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist, then I suspect you’re living in denial!” –Josh McDowell, speaker, author, Evidence That Demands a Verdict

“Atheism requires gobs of blind faith while the path of logic and reason leads straight to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Geisler and Turek convincingly show why.” –Phillip E. Johnson, author, Darwin on Trial and Reason in the Balance

“I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist will equip, exhort, and encourage you‘to give the reason for the hope that you have . . . with gentleness and respect.’” –Hank Hanegraaff, president, The Christian Research Institute, host, Bible Answer Man

“This book should disturb anyone claiming to be an atheist . . . perhaps enough to persuade them to begin a search for the God who has been there all along.” –Cal Thomas, syndicated columnist, host, After Hours, Fox News Channel

“Geisler and Turek present the crucial information needed to avoid being swept away by the onslaughts of secular ideologies that cast science, philosophy, and biblical studies as enemies of the Christian faith.” –William A. Dembski, author, The Design Revolution

Let me first defer the notion that attacks on G-d and the Biblical G-d are primarily attacks on chr*stianity, when these were around long before chr*stianity was. Despite the shameful silence of "official Jewish leadership" to attacks on G-d and the Torah (because they're too busy fighting ethnic bigotry), G-d and the Torah are fundamentally Jewish, not chr*stian.

Now, that being said . . .

Contemporary atheism is absolutely insane. Now, to see the world as fundamentally meaningless and to simply sit back and enjoy the ride of a meaningless life in a meaningless universe (Epicureanism) I can understand. I don't agree with it, but it has a certain internal logical consistency. However . . . to declare the universe meaningless and then to dedicate one's life to abolishing gender specific pronouns . . . to reject G-d not because He allegedly has "too many rules" but because He has too few . . . to declare the world ultimately meaningless and then to reject G-d because He violates some self-existent objective moral code that one's philosophy has no room for . . . well, it's INSANE.

And unfortunately it isn't just the left that has such atheists. FR is full of atheist crusaders who insist the world is ultimately meaningless but who nevertheless are certain that "spontaneous order" has created something called "the sanctity of private property."

Logically, there are only two alternatives: Epicurean atheism, or Theonomic positivism. Everything else is an internal contradiction.

The garden variety atheisst (the useful idiots) may be insane, or deluded, or foolish, but the real masters of deceit of atheism are not insane, but evil. They are disciples of the same Satan who told Adam and Eve in the Garden that they could be their own gods.

I also think you err in making it seem as if Christianity and Judaism were fundamentally opposed. Have you not heard the phrase "Judeo-Christian tradition?" Christians accept, read, and revere the Old Testament. Jesus was a Jew, as were almost all his disciples. Christians think Jesus came in fulfillment of OT prophecy. He came not to overthrow the law, but to fulfill it. If you can't accept that, so be it. I won't argue the issue with you. But it doesn't make sense for believing Jews or Christians not to realize that they are allies in today's world. Real (Orthodox) Jews have more in common with orthodox Christians than they do with apostate secular Jews.

Thank you for your thoughts.

First of all, I am a former chr*stian myself so there is nothing you can preach to me that I did not once believe myself and came to reject. Please don't waste your time trying to reconvert me.

Second, the "common ground" between Judaism and chr*stianity is very much overestimated by chr*stians. True, chr*stians accept the "old testament"--as history. All chr*stian theology comes from the "new testament" and is very, very differnt from Jewish Theology (most of which is found in the Oral rather than the Written Torah).

For example, you believe that there is a gigantic war being waged between the forces of good (led by G-d) and the forces of evil (led by Satan). Satan is not in rebellion against G-d. He is an angel who is doing his job(s). Furthermore Eve was not tempted by Satan but by the Serpent, and the Serpent was not Satan but a creature who wanted Adam to die so he could have Eve as his wife.

G-d Himself, and not Satan, gave man his evil inclination (though this did not give Adam the right to sin in the garden). The creation of a being with free will and the promulgation of a moral code is what makes evil possible, even before temptation has entered the picture.

And no, the "Lucifer, son of the morning" in the Prophets was not Satan but Nevuchadnetzar.

You have no idea of what the Torah is about. Your belief that the Torah was temporary and preparatory for something greater is foreign to Judaism as understood since the days of Moses. Furthermore, in Judaism religion is not salvational but statutory.

I love and appreciate Fundamentalist chr*stians for defending, against almost universal ridicule, the Divine authorship and inerrancy of the Torah. However, to chr*stians it is merely history, with an alien theology imposed upon it.

Thank you for your time.

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