Wise choice.
India's leading anti-superstition activist got killed a few months back.
He wasn't preaching atheism. Just trying to get a law passed to bar fraudulent spell-casting magicians from taking advantage of people.
Posted on 12/08/2013 12:35:03 PM PST by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
Imagine if an activist group blanketed a major city with 55 billboards urging that illegal aliens go back to their own country. Or that homosexuality is a crime against nature. Or that Muslims are responsible for most of the world’s terrorist attacks.
The mainstream media would be all over the story. Organizations – like La Raza, like GLAAD, like CAIR – would organize protests. President Obama would publicly condemn the billboards (while defending illegals, homosexuals and Islam). And the sponsors of the billboards would be branded a “hate group.”
Yet, there has been little outrage over the 55 billboards that started going up last week in Sacramento, California that mock Christians, that blaspheme God. They are sponsored by the so-called Freedom From Religion Foundation, an atheist organization based in Madison, Wisconsin that truly is a hate group.
“I don’t believe in Odin, either,” sneers one billboard. “Studying the bible made me an atheist,” disparages another. “Without god I am full of love,” declares still another.
Yet, Judy Saint, director of FFRF’s newly formed Sacramento chapter, insists that the 55 billboards are not anti-Christian, not anti-God. They just thought it would be a good way to encourage atheists on the down low to “come out of the closet”
“There are thousands of us here,” she said, “and we are reaching out to them because it’s such a maligned minority. If the message at all is to believers, it would be that we are good moral people, too.”
But, by her own words, Saint reveals the nefariousness of the atheist movement in this country.
She suggests that atheists are an unfairly maligned minority. But if the noisome atheist community – which constitutes less than 1 percent of the U.S. population – is maligned, it’s because of their attacks on Christians by in-your-face atheist groups like FFRF.
Indeed, not only are the atheists putting up 55 billboards that bash the religious faith of more than three-quarters of Americans, they have deliberately chosen to do so during the Christmas season, defecating on a holy day on which Christians celebrate the birth of Christ the Lord.
Saint also claims that she and her fellow atheists are both “good” and “moral.”
But there is no good in the atheists’ (un)holy war against Christianity, using billboards as their weapon of attack. And there is no morality in the atheist community’s endorsement of such practices as same-sex marriage.
Indeed, one of FFRF’s 55 billboards features Saint, the atheist hate group’s Sacramento front woman, and her wife with the message: “Reason. Equality. Doing Good – All without gods.”
That’s the arrogance of atheists that they inherited from their father, the devil. They think that “doing good” means they are good. But the Bible advises that their good works, whatever they might be, “are as filthy rags” before the Almighty.
The Word of God also tell us, everyone, “There is none righteous, no not one.”
The difference between unrighteous Christians and unrighteous atheists is that Christians are born again; their sins covered by the blood of Christ. Atheists, on the other hand reject Christ, and shake their fist at God.
And for their unrepentant, unforgiven sin, the unGodly will spend their existence beyond this fallen world in everlasting torment.
Wise choice.
India's leading anti-superstition activist got killed a few months back.
He wasn't preaching atheism. Just trying to get a law passed to bar fraudulent spell-casting magicians from taking advantage of people.
Exactly what I was going to say.
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth of God by their wickedness. And because of their stubbornness and their unrepentant heart, they are storing up wrath against themselves for the day of God's wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed.
We will pray for you too!
I get mildly annoyed when I see a billboard touting any kind of religious belief. A billboard touting religious unbelief is just as annoying. If you think you possess the secrets of the universe, fine. Just don’t feel the need to edify the rest of the world.
You too.
On the other hand, The Diarist uses his freedom of speech to tell people that his merciful God is going to torture them forever, a belief which has not universally been believed by Christians throughout history, and is not believed by some even today.
Is the latter "hate speech?" Nope. No more than professing not to believe in Odin.
Pray away. There’s no one listening. It does no harm, just as it does no good, except for the person who is praying. It makes that person feel good.
Unless he/she knows all there is to know, an “atheist” is most likely an agnostic without having reached that conclusion yet.
It goes like this, in an interview with someone who professes to be an atheist:
Q. Do you know all there is to know?
A. No.
Q. Do you know half of all there is to know?
A. No.
Q. Let’s say you do. Is it possible that you could find God in that half of what you do not know?
A. Yes, it’s possible, though I don’t believe so.
Q. Then, in essence you are an agnostic since you acknowledge it is possible for God to exist, correct?
A. ?
God listens even though one might not recognize Him among us.
Is it ironic that their spokepersons last name is Saint?
Yeah, but that didn’t really answer my question about agreeing with these “atheists”.
The proper answer to this question is "Since I have no belief in any deity while not affirming that no deities exist, I am an atheist of the weak variety rather than a strong atheist. This is distinct from being an agnostic, is it not, who when asked if God exists answers, 'Maybe'?"
A better answer than "?", I'm sure you'll agree.
It is my considered belief that God doesn’t exist. You are free to believe what you will, as am I. I am content to know that when I die, I will wink out of existence — as will everyone else, whether they believe that or not. I find that comforting, strange as it may seem.
Yet, Judy Saint, director of FFRF’s newly formed Sacramento chapter, insists that the 55 billboards are not anti-Christian, not anti-God. They just thought it would be a good way to encourage atheists on the down low to “come out of the closet”
Judy, dear, please consult the urban dictionary for the meaning of "on the low down." That word - I don't think it means what you think it means...
“And now you know why the rest of us in Wisconsin wish Madison was not part of our state.”
Anne Gaynor (or is it Gaylor?) and her claque of bitter anti-God agitators are not representative of Madison, although in a number of other ways, in addition to AG and her FFR Fndtn., Madison seems not representative of Wisconsin. There are many good folk there, friends and former neighbors to me.
Do I believe that atheists should proselytize? No.
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