Letters to the editor in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, Voices page, are allowed only 250 words every month and a half. (Sometimes the letters from Christians are edited to as much as half that number of words.) Atheists and liberals, on the other hand, are allowed even more than 250 words at times. Atheists can make more accusations against believers, God and the Bible, than can be answered in 250 pages. This reply and the next two are answers to their letters.

I don’t have faith enough to be an atheist. The notion that “Nobody plus nothing equals everything” is pretty dumb. Comparing the alternative mechanisms of the beginning of life, both, or either, require faith. Because both define a religious viewpoint, one is chance, the other is design. Yet, creation is rejected as “religion.” Random life development, “evolution” is not.

Anyone who says that there is not a war against Christianity and the Bible today is deaf and dumb. For the village atheists and secular fundamentalists, religion in general, and the Bible in particular, are not just wrongheaded but actually dangerous. Religion and the Bible stand in the way of everything they value most in life; primarily unlimited sex, and the power to reshape utopia, free from traditional ethics restraints.

The eruption of Islamic terrorism worldwide has given secular fundamentalists the excuse they've needed to draw a circle around all religious belief and insist its all the same. But they are too different to be the same. Drawing a parallel with Islamic terrorists who advocate mass suicide bombings, secular atheists claim these “Christianist” figures are now scheming to impose a kind of Christian theocracy on the "enlightened" secular societies. The Islamics are planning to conquer the world and impose Shariah law. But they are not “Christianist” figures. It’s not even the same God. People who say those who oppose abortion and stem cell research are no different from Islamic terror groups, and that Mother Theresa was no different from Osama bin Laden, just using different methods, are mentally sick and in great need of a good psychiatrist.

These thoughts are not original. For more than 300 years, from the philosophies of Marx, Lenin, and the “death of God” theologies of the 1960’s, they have assured us that that freeing the world of “superstitions and imbecilities of organized religion, rational secularists could make the world into a utopia. The results have been horrific. From the French revolution to the terrors of Nazism and Communism, more lives have been snuffed out by faith-hating fanatics than by religious believers. Sixty-one million people murdered in Russia from 1917-1987. In Communist China, from 1949 to the present, 35.2 million people murdered. Mao’s army murdered 3.4 million from 1923-1949. Nazi Germany murdered 20 million, (1932-1949). In Communist Poland, (1945-1948), 1.6 million murdered. In Communist Cambodia from (1975-1979), two million murdered. From 1945-1975, in Communist Vietnam, 1.6 million murdered. One million murdered in Communist Yugoslavia (1944-1987). One point four million murdered in the Anti-Christian Mexican Revolution in 1900-1920. One point eight million murdered in Turkey 1900-1918. One point five million murdered in Pakistan in 958-1987 alone. Five point nine million murdered in Japan, (1936-1945). These people were usually lined up against brick walls and shot by the so-called “rational,” more “scientific” social planners of Communist China and Russia, or anti-Christian Mexico and Germany often for the crime of merely believing in God. That doesn’t include soldiers killed in wars initiated by these anti-Christian states, such as the estimated 25 million soldiers killed in WW II. Neither does it include the 50 million killed by abortion in the last 34 years in this country, nor millions more world wide. Any unborn child killed by abortion in America was a U.S. citizen. Every day more than 3,000 babies are butchered in their mother’s womb. As Pope Paul said in 1996, “A nation that kills its children has no future.” So the most deadly evil to afflict humanity in the 20th Century was not war, or Christianity, but atheistic governments. These Communist tyrants were dogmatic atheists that killed in the name of “science,” rational state planning, and revolutionary “morality.”

Now for some atheist “Wisdom,” versus the Bible. Joseph Stalin said “A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.” Matthew 10:29-31 says “Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.”

We gasp at the wholesale historical ignorance displayed by the atheistic contemporary secular fundamentalists; at their utter lack of knowledge about events as recent as the fall of the Berlin wall as they prattle on about how much more “rational” they are and how much more “moral” their social policies would be freed from the “superstition” of biblical religion. But a Century of firsthand bloody experience with “rational” atheism has proven that it is atheism, not the Bible or religious belief that is the greatest danger to world peace.

© 11-14-2007 Julia

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