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The Air Force Band performs a flash mob at the Smithsonian, playing Jesu, Joy
of Man's Understanding.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/-cKE8pyfcZc
Of course there are many pieces of beautiful music dedicated to our Creator.
How is it that with all their supposed "intellect," atheists
have yet to produce a single piece of beautiful music based on atheism?
Many thousands of pieces of great art express our divine heritage.
Quickly, what is the most famous, most beautiful painting or sculpture reflecting atheism? If atheists are so smart, then surely they could produce art worthy of their belief in everything from nothing. Unfortunately for them, nothing springs from nothing. They claim otherwise.
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Atheists
Constantly Remind Everyone How "Smart" They Are
Atheists constantly put their words into Christians' mouths. They
lie and then feign intellectual superiority. Let's look at some examples
of atheist intellect. I'll quote them, rather than fabricate lies,
as they do so often.
Richard
Dawkins, author of The God Delusion
Video of the Dawkins Dilemma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH8dcjKDH44
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An acclaimed author who
has spent his career writing about mathematics and the sciences, David
Berlinski turns the scientific community’s cherished skepticism back on
itself, daring to ask and answer some rather embarrassing questions:
Has anyone provided a
proof of God’s inexistence? Not even close.
Has quantum cosmology
explained the emergence of the universe or why it is here? Not even close.
Have the sciences
explained why our universe seems to be fine-tuned to allow for the existence of
life? Not even close.
Are physicists and
biologists willing to believe in anything so long as it is not religious thought?
Close enough.
Has rationalism in moral
thought provided us with an understanding of what is good, what is right, and
what is moral? Not close enough.
Has secularism in the
terrible twentieth century been a force for good? Not even close to being close.
Is there a narrow and
oppressive orthodoxy of thought and opinion within the sciences? Close enough.
Does anything in the
sciences or in their philosophy justify the claim that religious belief is
irrational? Not even in the ballpark.
Is scientific atheism a
frivolous exercise in intellectual contempt? Dead on.
Berlinski does not
dismiss the achievements of western science. The great physical theories, he
observes, are among the treasures of the human race. But they do nothing to
answer the questions that religion asks, and they fail to offer a coherent
description of the cosmos or the methods by which it might be investigated.
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"Nothing will prevent me from eradicating totally,
root and branch, all Christianity in Germany." - Adolph Hitler,
April 7, 1933
"Christianity is an invention of sick brains. ...
The best thing is to let Christianity die a natural death. ... We commence
hostilities against the so-called Ten Commandments; the tablets from Sinai are
no longer in force." --Adolf Hitler
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Goodness
and Mercy
Are these atheists really as intelligent as they tell everybody they are? Can
they be trusted? They call themselves good and moral and decent.
You can tell how "good" and "moral" atheists are by
their works.
- Consider all the hospitals throughout America founded, supported, and
maintained by atheists: None. Zero
- There are more than 400 Catholic hospitals in the USA. Coincidentally,
my wife, two daughters, and I were all born in Catholic hospitals. There
are also many Jewish hospitals, Baptist hospitals, Lutheran hospitals,
Presbyterian hospitals. However I am unaware of even one hospital
with "atheist" in its name. That's a clear measure of atheist
"compassion".
- Now let's list all the orphanages founded, supported, and maintained by
atheists throughout America: Not one.
- Next, all the soup kitchens and homes for unwed mothers, founded, supported,
and maintained by atheists in the United States: There are none.
- How many universities in the United States are called "atheist"?
The Servants of Mary was founded in Spain in 1851. Today, 2,000 sisters
work in 128 convents throughout Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas,
ministering in terminal patients in their homes, hospices, hospitals and
orphanages, regardless of their faith. (LA Times, Oct 21, 2016)
These facts show the lie of atheist compassion, goodness, mercy, and penchant
for knowledge and teaching.
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Perverse failures and inconsistencies of atheism
- Atheists have a higher incidence of depression and suicide than
Christians
- Atheism has a lower retention rate than other worldviews; a majority of
atheists convert to a religious faith
- The Mayo Clinic reported that of 350 physical health studies and 850 mental
health studies, religious involvement and spirituality are associated with
better health outcomes
-Scientism is an effort commonly used by
atheists to use the methods of science to explain and control every part of
human life. Not to be confused with science, scientism has a dehumanizing
effect on ethics, politics, faith, and reason.
Excerpts from The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict
by
Josh McDowell
P 155: The world-renowned historian,
Jaroslav Pelikan makes this clear: “Regardless of what anyone may
personally think or believe about him, Jesus of Nazareth has been the dominant
figure in the history of Western culture for almost twenty centuries. If
it were possible, with some sort of super magnet, to pull up out of that
history every scrap of metal bearing at least a trace of his name, how much would
be left? It is from his birth that most of the human race dates its
calendars, it is by his name that millions curse and in his name that millions
pray.”
· Universities, which also
began during the Middle Ages. In addition, most of the world’s greatest
universities were started by Christians for Christian purposes.
· Literacy and education of
the masses.
· Representative
government, particularly as it has been seen in the American experiment.
· The separation of
political powers.
· Civil liberties.
· The abolition of slavery,
both in antiquity and in modern times.
· Modern science.
· The discovery of the New
World by Columbus.
· Benevolence and
charity; the Good Samaritan ethic.
· Higher standards of
justice.
· The elevation of the
common man.
· The high regard for human
life.
· The civilizing of many
barbarian and primitive cultures.
· The codifying and setting
to writing of many of the world’s languages.
· The greater development
of art and music. The inspiration for the greatest works of art.
· The countless changed
lives transformed from liabilities into assets to society because of the
gospel.
· The eternal salvation of
countless souls.
Hughes said, “I propose to you that we each
bring some concrete evidences of the validity of our beliefs in the form of men
and women who have been redeemed from the lives of sin and shame by the influences
of our teaching. I will bring 100 such men and women, and I challenge you
to do the same.”
Bradlaugh withdrew!
P 157: When we consider the basic
facts about Jesus’ life, the vast impact He has had is nothing short of
incredible. A nineteenth-century writer put it this way:
He (Jesus) was born in an obscure village,
the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another village, where He
worked in a carpenter shop until he was thirty. Then for three years He
was an itinerant preacher. He never wrote a book. He never held an
office. He never had a family or owned a home. He didn’t go to
college. He never visited a big city. He never traveled two hundred miles
from the place where He was born. He did none of the things that usually
accompany greatness. He had no credentials but himself.
He was only thirty-three when the tide of
public opinion turned against Him. His friends ran away. One of
them denied Him. He was turned over to his enemies and went through the
mockery of a trial. He was nailed to a cross between two thieves.
While he was dying, His executioners gambled for His garments, the only
property He had on earth. When He was dead, He was laid in a borrowed
grave through the pity of a friend. Nineteen centuries have come and
gone, and today He is the central figure of the human race.
All the armies that ever marched, all the
navies that ever sailed, all the parliaments that ever sat, all the kings that
ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man on this earth as
much as that one solitary life.
P 159: If Jesus was a liar, a con
man, and therefore an evil, foolish man, then how can we explain the fact that
He left us with the most profound moral instruction and powerful moral example
that anyone has ever left? Could a deceiver - an impostor of monstrous
proportions - teach such unselfish ethical truths and live such a morally
exemplary life as Jesus did? The very notion is incredulous.
“About the life and sayings of Jesus there
is a stamp of personal originality combined with profundity of insight in the
very first rank of men of sublime genius of whom our species can boast.”
- Agnostic, skeptic, and philosopher John Stuart Mill
P 193: Fulfilled Prophecies
1. Place of birth (Mic. 5:2)
2. Time of birth (Dan. 9:25; Gen 49:10)
3. Manner of birth (Is. 7:14)
4. Betrayal
5. Manner of death (Ps. 22:16)
6. People’s reactions (mocking, spitting, staring,
etc)
7. Piercing
8 Burial
We find that the chance that any man might
have lived down to the present time and fulfilled all eight prophecies is 1 in
1017 (10
to the 17th power).
That would be 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000. If we take 1017 silver
dollars and lay them on the face of Texas, they will cover all of the state two
feet deep. Now mark one of these silver dollars and blindfold a
man. He must pick up the one marked silver dollar on the first try.
What chance would he have of getting it right?
P 194: We find the chance that any
one man fulfilled all 48 prophecies to be 1 in 10 to the 157th power.
(The balance of the chapter recites many of
these fulfilled prophecies.)
Propagating this new faith, even in the most inoffensive and peaceful manner, they could expect nothing but contempt, opposition, revilings, bitter persecutions, stripes, imprisonments, torments, and cruel deaths. Yet this faith they zealously did propagate; and all these miseries they endured undismayed, nay, rejoicing. As one after another was put to a miserable death, the survivors only prosecuted their work with increased vigor and resolution. The annals of military warfare afford scarcely an example of the like heroic constancy, patience, and unblenching courage. They had every possible motive to review carefully the grounds of their faith, and the evidences of the great facts and truths which they asserted; and these motives were pressed upon their attention with the most melancholy and terrific frequency.
It was therefore impossible that they could have persisted in affirming the
truths they have narrated, had not Jesus actually risen from the dead, and had
they not known this fact as certainly as they knew any other fact. -
Simon Greenleaf, (1783 - 1853) Royall Professor of Law at Harvard University
P 218: Indeed, taking all the
evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no historic incident
better or more variously supported than the resurrection of Christ. - Brooke
Foss Westcott (1825 - 1901) regius professor at Cambridge
P 219: We, as Christians, are asked
to take a very great deal on trust; the teachings, for example, and the
miracles of Jesus. If we had to take all on trust, I, for one, should be
skeptical. The crux of the problem of whether Jesus was, or was not, what
He proclaimed Himself to be, must surely depend upon the truth or otherwise of
the resurrection. On that greatest point we are not merely asked to have
faith. In its favour as living truth there exists such overwhelming
evidence, positive and negative, factual and circumstantial, that no
intelligent jury in the world could fail to bring in a verdict that the
resurrection story is true.” - Lord Darling, former Chief Justice of England
/
This is evidence of massive clotting of the
blood in the main arteries, and is exceptionally strong medical proof of death.
It is all the more impressive because the evangelist could not possibly have
realized its significance to a pathologist. the “blood and water” from
the spear-thrust is proof positive that Jesus was already dead. - Michael Green
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The root word of science is "scientia," Latin for
"knowledge." But knowledge is not disseminated by atheists so
much as they disseminate are hatred, intolerance, and condescension.
Contrary to atheist pretensions, science and religion are not mutually
exclusive, nor are Christians ignorant rubes as can readily be seen from the
scores of historical examples presented here. In fact, the Ivy League
Universities were founded primarily by Christian scholars intent on the pursuit
of scientia, knowledge.
Wisdom exceedeth folly as far as light exceedeth darkness. - Eccl. 2:13
Come, let us reason together. - Isaiah 1:18
Test all things, hold fast that which is true. - 1 Thess. 5:21
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One of the last statements that the atheist George Bernard
Shaw said before his death in 1950 was that he had pinned his hopes on atheism,
but he had found that atheism did not solve the problems of the world.
"The science to which I pinned my faith is bankrupt. Its counsels, which
should have established the millennium, have led directly to the suicide of
Europe. I believed them once. In their name I helped to destroy the faith of
millions. And now they look at me and witness the great tragedy of an
atheist who has lost his faith." (Too True to Be Good).
But let us continue to
ultimate beginning. Either everything came from nothing, or else
everything came from God. You may try to convince yourselves and others
that absolutely nothing was the genesis of this grand universe, order, matter,
energy, beauty, and knowledge. And so you find elegance in ... nothing?
That is profoundly more inconceivable than finding elegance in God, the Creator. The universe, organizing itself, fine-tuning physical constants and values to an impossible degree does not begin to suggest random, undirected actions. If that were the case, then how could it possibly be that all horizons of information continue to recede from us, from the submicroscopic to the supermacroscopic? (See Robert Jastrow's quote that theologians have been sitting atop the mountain, waiting scientists for centuries.)
Over a hundred million people were starved, tortured, murdered, and disposed of by atheists just in the twentieth century. Stalin and Mao and other godless killers are always defended by atheists: "They didn't kill BECAUSE of their atheism" we hear.
Well they didn't murder
because of their Judeo-Christian beliefs.
Moreover, Stalin simply
adored Darwin's idea of eugenics:
"At some future
period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man
will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage
races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes (like the gorilla,
orangutan, or chimpanzee)… will no doubt be exterminated. The break
will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more
civilised state, as we may hope, than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a
baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the
gorilla." - The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
First, it requires a degree of wisdom to recognize wisdom. Fools do not listen, do they. As a dog returneth to his vomit so doth a fool return to his folly.
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·
Said to Winston Churchill in Tehran,
November 1943, as quoted in Fallen Eagle: The Last Days of the Third
Reich (1995) by Robin Cross, p. 21
"God's
not unjust, he doesn't actually exist. We've been deceived. If God existed,
he'd have made the world more just... I'll lend you a book and you'll see."
·
A teenaged Stalin after reading The Origin
of Species by Charles Darwin as quoted
in Young Stalin (2007) by Simon
Sebag Montefiore, p. 49
More than a hundred years
ago, prominent Marxist Antonio Gramsci wrote: "Socialism is precisely the
religion that must overwhelm Christianity.”
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Alexis de Tocqueville, in
his masterful work, “Democracy in America,” taught that religion is necessary
for a healthy political order. As I argue at greater length in a new First Principles essay, American democracy,
according to Tocqueville, owes both its origins and its preservation to
Christianity. He thought religion “should be considered the first”
of America’s “political institutions.” Tocqueville observed that the
modern impulse toward democracy and belief in equality emerged first and made great
progress in the Christian nations of Europe. This was no accident: By
teaching the equality of all men before God, Christianity laid the groundwork
for the rise of a belief in equality of all before the law. - How
Christianity Helped Create Our American Democracy, by Carson Holloway
I personally donated to
the Mercy Home for Boys and Girls, 1140 West Jackson Blvd, Chicago,
Illinois. Along with many others, it is operated by the Catholic
Church. Name for me one home for boys and girls operated by Atheists of
America. Just one. Then tell me about "atheist
compassion."
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The Definitive Treaty of Peace 1783
In
the name of the most holy and undivided Trinity.
It
having pleased the Divine Providence to dispose the hearts of the most serene
and most potent Prince George the Third, by the grace of God,...
and
ends:
Done at Paris, this third
day of September in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and
eighty-three.
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On
Children and Death
by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"Rarely is a child ever informed as to how many members of the family were killed at the site of the accident. Shortly before children die there is often a very 'clear moment', as I call it. Those who have remained in a coma since the accident or after the surgery open their eyes and seem very coherent. Those who have had great pain and discomfort are very quiet and at peace. It is in those moments that I asked them if they were willing to share what they were experiencing.
'Yes, everything is all right now. Mommy and Peter are already waiting for me', one boy replied. With a content little smile, he slipped back into a coma from which he made the transition we call death.
I was quite aware that his mother had died at the scene of the accident, but Peter had not died. He had been brought to a special burn unit in another hospital, because the car had caught fire before he was extricated from the wreck. Since I was only collecting data, I accepted the boy's information and determined to look in on Peter. It was not necessary, however, because as I passed the nursing station there was a call from the other hospital to inform me that Peter had died a few minutes earlier.
In all the years that I have quietly collected data from California to Sydney, Australia, from white and black children, aboriginals, Eskimos, South Americans, and Libyan youngsters, every single child who mentioned that someone was waiting for them mentioned a person who actually preceded them in death, if only by a few moments. And yet none of these children had been informed of the recent death of the relatives by us at any time.
Coincidence? By now there is no scientist or statistician who could convince me that this occurs, as some colleagues claim, as 'a result of oxygen deprivation' or for some other 'rational and scientific' reason."
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"If you were to take . . . all
the authoritative articles ever written .. . on the subject of mental hygiene,
if you were to combine them and refine them and cleave out the excess verbiage,
if you were to take the whole of the meat and none of the parsley, and if you
were to have these unadulterated bits of pure scientific knowledge concisely
expressed by the most capable of living poets, you would have an awkward and
incomplete summation of the Sermon on the Mount."- The Case Book of a Psychiatrist, by
James T Fisher, M.D.
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Pascal's Wager
A materialist is one who believes in matter alone. But on issues of morality and meaning they have nothing to look to for a moral framework beyond themselves and if their assumptions are true, the existential arena is the only legitimate route for the pursuit of meaning. Pascal was declaring that if the existential test for finding meaning in life was the only option left to him, the hungers of his heart had been met in following Jesus and thus he was fulfilled. In a worst-case scenario, where the atheist is right and death is oblivion, Pascal had still met the only test the atheist has for belief and had found his relationship with Jesus to be existentially fulfilling. As a Christian, he met both his own test for truth in the person of Jesus - the empirical test - and the existential test posed by the atheist. It was for that reason he could say he could not be a loser, and the gamble was not a gamble he could lose, no matter which test he used.
Further reading:
http://www.conservapedia.com/Atheism_and_logical_fallacies
David Wood's Journey From Atheism to Christianity
Science and "The God of the Gaps" Argument, Demolished
https://wastelandsofunbelief.wordpress.com/
Scholars Verify the Life, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus
The Irrational Atheist -
Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris and Hitchens, by
Vox Day
Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design,
by Stephen C. Meyer
A
Meaningful World, How the Arts and Sciences Reveal the Genius of Nature, by Benjamin Wiker &
Jonathan Witt
Darwin's Black Box, by Michael J. Behe
The Devil's Delusion, by David Berlinski
Evidence for Creation, by Tom Rosa
Not by Chance: Shattering the Modern Theory of
Evolution, by Dr.
Lee Spetner
Undeniable, by Douglas Axe
The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict, by Josh McDowell
The Privileged Planet: How our Place in the Cosmos is Designed for Discovery by Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards
The Wonder of the World: A Journey from Modern Science to the Mind of God by Roy Abraham Varghese
Brilliant Creations - The Wonder of Nature and Life, by John Phillip Jaeger
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