‘Ads proclaiming, “Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness’ sake,” will appear on Washington, D.C., buses starting next week and running through December. The American Humanist Association unveiled the provocative $40,000 holiday ad campaign Tuesday.’
Was someone recently accusing Christians of working overtime to keep the culture wars going?
“Our reason for doing it during the holidays is there are an awful lot of agnostics, atheists and other types of non-theists who feel a little alone during the holidays because of its association with traditional religion.”
Don’t you hate it when irrelevant civil religion has you feeling down and blue?
To that end, the ads and posters will include a link to a Web site that will seek to connect and organize like-minded thinkers in the D.C. area, Edwords said.
Now, once these atheists and agnostics are organized what will they set out to do?
“Best-selling books by authors such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens have fueled interest in “the new atheism” — a more in-your-face argument against God’s existence.”
Yep, listen up people … if you don’t have the basics down on what you believe and why you believe it you better keep your mouth shut if you come across one of these people because they will eat you up and spit you out if you give the typical evangelical apologetic that “I know Jesus lives in my heart and he can live in yours to if you will just believe.”
It is always odd to me that people should hate so much what they do not believe to exist, or confess no knowledge of His existence.
But then again, perhaps it is more odd that people who claim to believe in God would do (almost?) all that they can to dishonor Him.
I suppose the case they would make is that they don’t hate God but they hate those who push a non real god on them.
Yes, I’m sure they could make that case. But why get anymore upset about folks who push you to believe in an imaginary god anymore than those who push you to believe in unicorns?
I suppose they might say that more evils have been done by those who believe in God than by those who believe in unicorns, but we can pile up plenty of despicable atrocities committed by proclaimed atheists or agnostics. So if they wish to be consistent in hating pushing theists, they ought to hate pushy atheists, but then they would have to hate themselves (which, Biblically speaking, they do in a sense).
So I suppose presuppositional apologetics is the right path to take with these folks, just as Doug Wilson is doing. Is this your opinion as well?
Rich,
Yes, the key is the “being good for goodness sake.”
Without a God how do we objectively know what good is and why is being good for goodness sake good?
I really don’t see how these cultural divisions can be navigated much longer.
Must be an ethic arising from natural law. “So be good for goodness sake” could be the new theme song for the R2Kt guys.
Perhaps a new moniker is in order:
RSCT {“Radical Santa Claus Theologians”}