Atheism seems to have gone from being just the offbeat expression of a few ACLU-types to a mainstream movement in America. Today atheists not only deny God, but do so with an evangelistic fervor and an in-your-face attitude.
Today the New York Times bestseller is the atheist manifesto, “God is not Great. Why Religion Poisons Everything” By journalist Christopher Hitchens. Besides Hitchens book, there are the following currently popular atheist books: Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris (sequel to his earlier book The End of Faith), and Oxford biologist Richard Dawkin’s book “The God Delusion.” All of these have been N.Y. Times best sellers. Other popular titles include, God, the Failed Hypothesis, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, Atheist Universe, and others.
I have but two comments:
1. GOOD!!! Yes, this in indeed a very, very good thing. I want to see the Lord’s return in my lifetime, so the more inroads made by secularists and God haters, the quicker He will come. He said Himself that there must first be a “A falling away.” (II Thes. 2:3) So as we this falling away gain momentum, we should quit whining and see it as the harbinger of the greatest day of the last 2,000 years, if not the last 6,000.
2. Christians are under a scriptural obligation (I Peter 3:15) to be ready, willing and able to give a reason for their faith and to present a well reasoned and compelling case for their beliefs. Atheism rests first & foremost on the foundation of Evolution. Evolution in fact rests on very, very shaky ground, and any well informed and studied Christian should be able to disarm the evolutionists’ false claims in one short paragraph, if not a sentence. Sadly, this is not the case. Christians are derelict in their responsibility to be able to defend their faith. Churches are more interested in peddling drama than Bible study, and emotion rather than the science of Creation. “Three Points & a Poem” still satisfies most Christians Sunday after Sunday, and the droning masses in the pews find that perfectly acceptable. Churches , like citizens, have the leaders they deserve.
Jerry D. Kaifetz, Ph.D.
“Christians are under a scriptural obligation (I Peter 3:15) to be ready, willing and able to give a reason for their faith and to present a well reasoned and compelling case for their beliefs.”
Where is your “well reasoned and compelling case,” Jerry? Your well-reasoned and compelling case is to tell a person that he is that, which you flush down a toilet.
“Churches are more interested in peddling drama than Bible study, and emotion rather than the science of Creation.”
The “science of Creation?” Science of creation? Can you not make up your mind, Jerry? Is creation a science, or is it not?
YES! OF COURSE Creation is science. TONS of books out there by highly credentialed men os science who approach it in that way. Why don’t you know about them????