When Paul encountered Jesus on the Road to Damascus, Jesus asked him why he was kicking against that which would hurt him. In like manner, the man from Paris had another letter in Voices on 8-13-2008 in which he was kicking about freedom of religion. The man wants to be able to spout his unbelief and castigate believers but at the same time, he and his kind want to limit or permanently still the voices of believers. He was very upset because a writer in commenting about freedom of speech and freedom of religion left out freedom from religion. He claims that we wouldn’t be free if we didn’t have freedom from religion. If not for the founders, we would more than likely be under the shackles of the Church of England and England or something worse.

The words, freedom of religion, mean that each person can worship God as he or she sees fit and understands or can refuse to do so. Of is a preposition that variously indicates possession and origin as a result of tangible or intangible. Simply, of religion in the Constitution means one can practice the inherit freedom possessed by (or found in) religion that frees man from the ravages of sin and which creates a relationship with God through Jesus Christ.

Our nation’s founders didn’t mean and didn’t contemplate freedom from religion for good reason. They believed in God and built the nation on the standard of God’s principles. But as for freedom from religion, that isn’t possible because whether one believes in God or not, everyone has a belief or religion to which he or she will cling. In the case of the Paris man, his religion is unbelief and ranting about believers is his doctrine, which he does religiously in each letter he writes. It is noticed that those who are unbelievers spend a lot of time ranting about God and those who follow the Creator. Is it a sign of a troubled conscience?

It is most galling to the man that believers refuse to roll over and accept evolution. Charles Darwin formulated the phony ideology that is no more scientific than the pronouncements of a Taro Card reader. For all the blather that those who have the same mind set as the Paris man, not one shred of evidence to support evolution has been found. That which has been proffered for proof has been proven to be as foolish as a fortune teller or a psychic’s ramblings. Yes, believers do refuse to be “enlightened” by those that the Bible calls fools.

More foolishness was brought forth with belief that the biblical content regarding morality is stupefying. What the man consistently refuses to understand is that the Bible contains the behavior of mortal man, and the means and methods God used to deal with the ungodly behavior over time. The immorality in the pages is a record of the vileness called sin that besets every person, beginning with Adam and Eve choosing to ignore God’s instructions. It also tells us the remedy for the vileness. That is only stupefying to those who refuse to follow God.

As for claimed contradictions, it is one of three things: the reader refuses to believe and grasps at straws to prove the Bible false; two, the reader can’t divide the word of truth properly; and three, their study skills are so poor they can’t discern the truth. And it is quite possibly all three afflicting the Paris man. It is reasonable to believe that the reason the so called contradictions haven’t invalidated the Bible is because there aren’t any contradictions. Not one truth has been proven false and none will be for that matter.

No one is forcing God on the Paris man or requiring him to partake of it. But the truth that he can’t see is that even unbelievers partake of God’s creation by default. Hebrews 9:27 says, And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: He will participate whether he believes it or not. But when he wrote that the Constitution denies believers the right to force their childish belief onto others, he is wrong again. The Constitution isn’t about controlling citizens as such, but the government. Freedom of speech includes the right to preach the gospel, and if he doesn’t want to partake of the truth, he doesn’t have to do so; at least not until Christ returns. That is when he will partake in an eternally deadly way, and then it will be too late for him and many others.

© 08-13-2008 DEC