'Soft Atheism' Leads to Soft-Headed Christianity
Somehow, the Templeton Foundation believes that the "soft atheist" Jane Goodall's "answer to humanity’s greatest philosophical question, 'What does it mean to be human as part of the natural world?'" is worthy of the annual Templeton Prize, which is larger than the Nobel Prize, awarded previously to Alexandr Solzhenitsyn and Michael Bourdeaux with whom I've had the honor of working for freedom of religion.
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit! Glory to Jesus Christ! Glory forever!
This grandmotherly-looking woman who spent years with the great apes spoke of her "vision for a harmonious world ...cast in a rosy-golden hue" as she held a cuddly monkey doll while being awarded this prize. But we must never forget the point Chesterton once made, that "where animals are worshiped, humans tend to be sacrificed." She advocates "selective abortion, even infanticide" while quoting from the Apostle Paul's famous anticipation of heaven: "Now we see through a glass darkly; then face to face." Goodall doesn't present herself as an angry atheist. Indeed, spiritual language suffused her speech as she accepted the award. She admitted that the truly "deep mysteries of life" lie "forever beyond scientific knowledge." This is nothing less than sugar-coated atheism with a little pat on the head and a "bless your (ignorant) heart" to Christians.
Don't be a soft-headed Christian that falls for this line! "Soft atheism" is still real atheism that is lulling Christians to sleep with pseudo-religious jargon. Their aim is the same: to marginalize and silence the Christian claim – "I believe in God the Father Almighty, Creator heaven and earth and of all things visible and invisible." By twisting words around, "soft atheists" claim to be working for human rights while they fight for "Freedom from Religion" – the name of one of their organizations. They ignore the idea that all people "are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" as our U.S. Declaration of Independence states. If we jettison our belief in the Creator Who is our loving Father, we set out on the evolutionary path away from life and liberty, toward abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia disguised in flowery, religious-sounding language. Indeed, "where animals are worshiped, humans tend to be sacrificed."
Without faith in the Creator Who is our loving Father, "soft atheism" supports its talk about human rights and freedom from an invisible skyhook: nothing is holding it up. Designing a structure in which the first-floor supporting walls are missing leads to the upper floors collapsing: the second storey can't be supported by just a vague "deep mystery of life" up there in the clouds somewhere "forever beyond scientific knowledge." God became incarnate and knowable in the Christ, the Annointed One: we can touch Him and see that He is not a ghost, an apparition, a figment of our imagination: check out "A FIRST-CENTURY VIEW OF YESHUA, THE MESSIAH – A Historical Account of Yesous Khristos, the Anointed One."
How do we actually do this? What does it look like where "the rubber meets the road"? The Apostle Paul gives the answer in the eleventh chapter of Hebrews where he describes the Old Testament heroes of our faith: Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, Rahab, Samuel, David, and includes those who "were stoned, they were cut up with knives, they were tortured, they were put to death with the sword" (v. 37). They did this as witnesses, as martyrs for the faith that was to be fulfilled in Yeshua, the Messiah.
As Fr. Stephen Freeman writes: "This is the faith of the martyrs. The long history of the Church’s faithful who have gone to their deaths include many stories of terrible persecutions and tortures. They also include an abiding witness to an abiding sense that everything being done to them somehow misses the point. When Christ stood before Pilate, He was threatened with the might and power of Rome. 'Don’t you know I have the power to release you or to kill you?' Human beings have no power over God. The Kingdom of God willingly enters into the suffering of this world, willingly bears shame, willingly embraces the weakness of the Cross. The martyrs acted as they did because their lives were not of this world. Christians should not live in this world thinking about a world somewhere else (heaven). Rather, Christians themselves are heaven in this world. It is that reality to which we bear witness (martyr means 'witness')."
Taking a stand for the truth of the Gospel-based genuine human rights can be costly. Dr. Martin Luther King is famous not only for his "I Have a Dream" speech, but also for leading out with the song – "We Shall Overcome." You know what happened to Dr. King. How do we Christians overcome evil, the evils of atheism that leads to abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, and genocide? We cannot fight evil with evil, we must always remember:
"Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but leave room for God's wrath. For it is written: 'Vengeance is Mine, says the Lord.' But if your enemy is hungry, feed him, if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. for in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil by good" (Romans 12:19-20).
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit! Christ is among us! He is and ever shall be!
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