I felt like I was kicked in the stomach when Obama said he was against torture of our enemies.....what does he think babies go through, as they are burned to death by a saline solution, and have their brains scrambled with an instrument until they die? Water boarding doesn't sound like that kind of torture, does it, and certainly doesn't kill like abortion does! And these innocent babies aren't even our enemies!
The controversy over the placement of an atheist sign next to a Nativity scene in the Washington state capitol rotunda is just another example of a more aggressive tack being taken by atheists across the country this Christmas season. Buses in Washington, DC are sporting signs paid for by the American Humanist Association that read, "Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness' sake." The Metro State Atheists in Colorado are putting up billboards this holiday season in Denver and Colorado Springs declaring, "Don't believe in God? You're not alone." This more vocal and visible approach certainly calls more attention to the atheist cause but leads me to wonder why they're so agitated in the first place. They're perfectly free not to believe; why must they disturb those of us who do?
I suppose we should have seen it coming; they've been louder and more obnoxious over the past few years with provocateurs like Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher using their books, speeches and media platforms to attack people of faith, particularly Christians, and make a lot of money in the process. Isn't America wonderful? The question I find myself asking is, "Why are they so angry?" After all, things seem to be going their way these days. Americans are rejecting all notions of objective truth and demanding that God be driven back into the closet of private belief. Even the Christian church is vacillating under the pressures of modern culture, choosing in too many cases to go along rather than stand in the gap and be salt and light in a fallen world. The atheists should be celebrating as we move ever so closer to "One Nation Without God."
There's just one problem, though. God is a stubborn old man and He just won't go away. The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found in a poll taken earlier this year that 92 percent of Americans believe in God. Newsweek, perhaps inadvertently, acknowledged God's power recently by doing a cover story claiming a Biblical endorsement of homosexuality and same-sex marriage. You see, whether we take Him at His Word or try to twist His Word to fit our desires, He's still in play. His persistence despite a hedonistic and hostile culture must make atheists lose sleep at night.