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.
I give atheists a wide berth.
Experience.
The question is: should you shrug your shoulders at malicious tactics like this? They not attacking God, who needs no defenders, but their fellow citizens.
Why not rules? If the rules are not made by God, then they will be made by human beings, many of who think themselves to be gods.
Pretty much, yes. They have right to free speech and freedom of religion...just as the people who put this up do:
No one from either side is going to put a gun to my head and tell me which church to go to (or not to go to). Which is good for them, since I'm very well armed.
Human societies throughout time have defined their own rules and couched those rules as having been written by that society's god or gods. But they were invented by humans as all rules are. Every society has the right to define its own rules, no matter how arbitrary they may seem to others.
Sounds like you like the “atheists” better. Any reason?
"Of all the strange crimes that humanity has legislated out of nothing, blasphemy is the most amazing - with obscenity and indecent exposure fighting it out for second and third place."
"Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other sins are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful--just stupid.)"
"One man's religion is another man's belly laugh."
Heinlein was the 20th Century’s Mark Twain.
I'm not sure what what lead you to that conclusion. I have no desire to persuade anyone to believe in God(s), or not to believe in God(s).
I was an atheist before I got saved.
As an added bonus, the Left finds Heinlein very offensive.
(as do a few on the Right, but that's their problem...)
I dare say you imply it.
Or at least imply a moral equivalency between a church’s billboard and these by the “atheists”.
But if one does not want Christ as Lord, it evidences that want sin (including idolatry) over Him, and would not like Heaven either.
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. (John 3:19-21)
“It is my considered belief that God doesn’t exist.”
What considerations?
Based on what?
Or at least imply a moral equivalency between a church’s billboard and these by the “atheists”.
Heck, I won't just imply that, I'll assert it. Both sides are trying to persuade those who don't share their beliefs (or non-beliefs) to convert to their side, and both sides are attacking the beliefs (or non-beliefs) of the other.
Have at it, guys...I'm going to quietly ignore both of you as I drive by.
So why have billions of Hindus chosen darkness over light for the last 2000 years? Are they all going to end up in the lake of fire?
>> Dear Christians, We Hate You. Sincerely, Atheists
Atheists are idiots.
That depends on how one defines sin, does it not? For that matter, does a Buddhist monk (as one who most evidently does not want Christ as Lord) want sin and idolatry?
As for Heaven, it's a place in which I have no belief that it exists, so the point is largely meaningless (to me, anyway). You might as well be saying that I wouldn't like Middle Earth or Narnia.
Gd doesn’t care, and still extends His Creation and benevolence to the atheists. And Christians - these days no one besides other Christians* gives Christians any respect. But that is not why you are Christians; it’s not a popularity contest.
*we conservative Jews think you’re pretty awesome too
I haven't seen one these yet (I live near Sacramento), these are put up on places like bus stops and sides of buses. Just look at what the same group does in NYC.
It's not the same as a Church putting up a Christmas message on their own billboard on Church property.
Do you see the difference? Putting up a sign on a church's billboard is probably a matter of finding the right letters and putting them up correctly. These 'freedom from religion' whakjobs are paying money to put this up in public places.
I know my Church spends a lot of time and donations to help the needy but they don't put up a sign about it. So, I don't see how you can say they are both the same, they're not.
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