Ok, so today I'm doing something a little different. I'm giving you homework.
Read this article
And now, I discuss.
Atheists and agnostics claim to be the poor, suffering minority in our political system.
While I do agree that most politicians claim to be religious, this is for 2 main reasons:
1. The upper class is statistically more religious than the lower class
2. Surveys have shown that people, even atheists, typically want people with a sense of religious morality to have power in our country
Now, this is certainly not to say that the legislation of the U.S., with the exception of President Bush, in the past 10 years has been AT ALL religious.
In this article they claim that they have no say in politics, but postmodernism has made any sense of the absolute truth of morality disappear from our methods of foreign policy or our laws at home.
Abortion has political support. Weapons are a SIGNIFICANT portion of our tax burden. The education system has been forced by legislature to prohibit Christian and Mormon practices, although not Islam practices, because we don't want to be racist.
Also, almost anything scientific, which comes under the consideration of law - such as stem cell research, abortion, evolution, and many more things, are expected to be a completely different realm from the church. A scientist who is also a Christian has no authority.
And look at the author's reasoning for wanting this political power:
Because he says religious people condemn him to hell every time he meets them.
This article is not a cry out from political oppression, it is a rally for mockery of Christianity.
They say that there is a 15% group of people who are non-religious, but I say that's a lie. That's probably just the 15 ACTIVE percent. The people who intentionally propagate atheism as "realistic" and who vote for the removal of spirit from life. There are probably as few as 15% or less active religious people with political power. The rest may IDENTIFY themselves as religious, but in reality they are APATHETIC and still vote as if they were non-religious because their faith isn't real!
Even more proof is in the article itself. While attempting to say that non-religious people are legitimate voters, he proves that he does not care about that, but just wants to vindicate his own beliefs with lines such as "for the love of God, stop ignoring us" and "if God forbid, [the non-religious] should ever fight back and forcefully present their opinions, they are often considered rude and offensive." Aside from the fact that neither of those statements are true, they are sardonic and catatonic.
This just aids me in the belief that atheism is not a pattern of thought or a way of life; it is a rebellion. These are not people who care about asserting that there is no God, they care about asserting their own authority.
Man, that made me mad.
Here's a question, though. What is the Christian response to this kind of animosity?
3.10.2009
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True story...
Even when we are the minority they will still call of the majority...
I think we just let them rant and give them love. His big problem is being condemned to hell for his beliefs. And let's face it... it shouldn't be Christian's who condemn, their own denial of the Holy Spirit and evidence of God is what does that. We are called to love them and be the image of Christ in their lives. That means something totally different from what this author has obviously experienced.
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