You said;

“After learning of organized atheist opposition, Ray Comfort changed the date to a day earlier, November 18—and didn’t tell anyone else, except for those on the book distribution teams”.

and then, a couple of picture later, said;

“The amazing thing was that there was virtually no opposition”.

Amazing!

I think the main thing that atheists (and a number of my Christian friends as well) don’t like is that the introduction is full of lies and is piggy-backing on a great piece of historic, scientific literature.

Hitler was a Creationist. Just sayin’

We went to a part of Durham University (arguably the top institution besides Oxford and Cambridge). It was a beautiful, bright autumn day (heavy rain the day before and after!). The first to get a book was an Anthropology lecturer. She was bowled over at the offer of free books – loosely connected to her subject. So she said she’d send her first year class out to get copies. And so she did.

The really good thing is that we didn’t get mobbed by students, just a steady trickle. So we were able to chat to a good few.

A real joy. Praise the Lord!

Like McMurdo in England, we here in Canada did not have the number of books per campus to hand out as you did. But that did not make it less of a privilege to be a part of this project. It was a joy!

You’re the one who highlighted ‘em in red, [expletive]. If you dressed your grandmother’s corpse in a zoot suit and put a tommygun beside her in the coffin, then at her wake she might faintly resemble a Depression-era gangster. You could be honest – with yourself at least – and admit that nobody’s likely to believe she was a gangster except those who disliked her already. So, you’re the only one who believes that you’re hated. And since martyrdom requires at least one real enemy, yours will have to wait.

You do understand that it is hyperbole, meant for a little humor. Still, look at some of those red highlighted quotes. That ain’t exactly love….

You use the word “hate” in a lot of instances where I think you might be using a bit too much hyperbole.

For the record, I don’t hate you, what you write, what you preach… any of it.

If your understanding of what Evolution actually is, is that wrong, ever consider that you might be wrong?

Like a Guy over at Trish’s blog told me ‘Fish don’t have lungs!’, it’s like seriously if you understanding of the world you live in is that wrong, are you really in a position to argue science?

The Big Bang Theory came from a Christian. I’d be surprised if you knew that. Christians are very active in the scientific community. Like Galileo they just don’t let religious dogma get in the way of using the brain that god gave them.

I am close to breaking the 10th commandment – I am envious you had 2,600 to distribute. But delighted for you that the giveaway was so successful. That’s more than FIVE TIMES the total shipped to the UK! I have managed to get a good proportion of these (150) and three of us will be giving these out next week – on the campus of one of the Britain’s most reputable universities.

Our tactics will be slightly different from yours. We aim witness verbally to as many as we can manage, as well as giving out the books.

Pray for us – that the relatively few we have will get into the right hands. And pray for the weather too – if it’s even a little like the weather you got, that would be great – but this is England!

Blessings!!

McM