Stone the Preacher

A concession: I cannot prove the existence of God.

A reality: I can only point to evidences that suggest there is a Creator.

With that said, I have given up trying to convince our atheist friends that He exists for one main reason: They will never believe because their presupposition is that there is no God. They cannot believe; their belief system does not allow them to. (more…)

Gothic writer Anne Rice, a former atheist and most famous for her “Interview with the Vampire”  series of books has announced that she is leaving Christianity. This is what she posted on her FACEBOOK fan page:

For those who care, and I understand if you don’t: Today I quit being a Christian. I’m out. I remain committed to Christ as always but not to being “Christian” or to being part of Christianity. It’s simply impossible for me to “belong” to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group. For ten …years, I’ve tried. I’ve failed. I’m an outsider. My conscience will allow nothing else.

As I said below, I quit being a Christian. I’m out. In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of …Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.

My question: What does she mean by this?

Welcome to a new weekly feature that will spotlight silly comments from this blog’s resident atheists, challenges to religious liberties in the U.S., and unbeliever’s opinions in general along with various and sundry articles and videos to help you deal with the atheist/unbeliever/agnostic/unsaved-and desperately-needing-a-Savior person in your life.

This week, I want to post a comment by a particularly snarky atheist who’s been hanging around here for several months: His name is AZOU (they never give their real names) and, unbeknown to him, he’s become something of a hero for the evangelist’s cause. On Sunday he left a comment on my Everyday Club post where members share how well they did on their monthly evangelist goals. Here it is:

“I threw a stack of tracts in the garbage. Sorry, but I prefer the bathroom at work to be tidy! Not the only garbage I’ve tossed in there.”

Many evangelists were encouraged by his comment knowing that God can use everything for His purposes. Paul Latour responded to Azou with this friendly reminder:

Dear Azou,

Thank you for helping us spread the Word of God by heaving gospel tracts into the trash. I have read more than one story of janitors and santitation workers finding these things in trash bins as they cleaned them out, were convicted by what they read, surrendered their life to Christ and were saved. Imagine that: sins forgiven and eternal life granted them in Heaven by what they found in the trash. Isn’t God wonderful?

Your contribution is very much appreciated. Bless you!

PS: Azou,

What are your evangelistic goals for August? Keep up the good work!

The same thought was expressed by SeedSowerJoy:

It’s just possible that the person who empties out the trash in that restroom will see the tracts and read one. Who knows? He may’ve repented and put his trust in the Lord and he would have YOU to thank for providing the information he needed. Just imagine that! God’s Word always end up exactly where He intended.

Thank you.

This comment by Robert Moss reminds all Christians that leaving tracts in bathrooms is a great idea:

When you need help concentrating on doing business in the bathroom I help aide anyone (even atheists ) by leaving reading material…especially Chick Tracts due to their length and good artwork.

And Dede saw this as a rallying cry to do more!:

you and other non-believers will never slow us evangelists down. sorry we are here to stay buddy. and oh btw, there would be a very remote chance that an evangelist would leave a STACK of tracts in a public bathroom…besides there are plenty more where those came from. have a blessed day sir!

So, the honorary sold-out, on-fire encourager award, The Inspy, goes to… AZOU! Congratulations!

WAIT! DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE IS A TRACT CALLED THE “POOPER PEEPER” THAT YOU CAN ACTUALLY TAPE TO THE BATHROOM WALL? CLICK HERE TO SEE IT! (Thanks again, Azou. I almost forgot about it.)

The “Under God” spray-painted by vandals onto an atheist billboard on Billy Graham Parkway over the weekend won’t be gone until just before July 4, a spokesman for Charlotte Atheists & Agnostics said today.

“It was done by one or two people off on their own who decided their only recourse was vandalism rather than having a conversation.” Warren said. “It does show how needed our message is. As atheists, we want to let people know we exist and that there’s a community here. See the sign and read the rest here.

Several weeks back I wrote an analogy titled The  Drowning Woman that illustrates why our evangelists go to such drastic extremes (like preaching atop trash cans and in elevators) to try and save some from Hell. The Christians agreed that it was an accurate metaphor, while, unsurprisingly, the atheists did not, dismissing what we do as “Jerky Evangelism.” The post received over 130 comments, so it was quite controversial. (Read “The Drowning Woman” by clicking here).

One man, under the pseudonym Quasar, wrote his own analogy from the atheist’s viewpoint. Read it and respond. Does he have a valid point or is he way off the mark?

Here’s what Quasar wrote:

From your perspective, the analogy is valid. You honestly believe there is a sea and that the woman is drowning in it. From our perspective:

We are sitting on a grassy field in the middle of a park casually reading a novel, when suddenly a car screeches to a halt next to us, and a random guy in speedos and a lifeguard t-shirt leans out. He shouts “Are you okay?” in a very loud voice.

“Um… yeah, we’re okay,” we reply somewhat nervously.

“You sure?”

“Yeah, we’re good,” we say, raising an eyebrow and putting the book down on the ground next to us.

Suddenly, he dives out of the car in a perfect swan-dive. We watch in astonishment as he flails about on the grass, miming a breaststroke, screaming at us. “I’m coming to save you!” (more…)

Way back in November, a couple of weeks after the extremely successful “Origin of Species” book giveaway at hundreds of universities around the country, (this being the infamous book by Darwin with the even more infamous introduction by Ray Comfort, which contains the Gospel), I posted an interview called “Ray Comfort Thanks the Atheists” that got picked up by a semi-famous, YouTube-posting atheist named Thunderf00t.

Well… guess who commented a few months after I posted this article? None other than Thunderf00t himself. I was honored to have a semi-famous, YouTube posting atheist write a wise, thought-provoking comment. Here it is:

Tfoot says:
January 14, 2010 at 2:40 pm

this blog, 32 comments

WDPLAC pt 31 [Why do people laugh at creationists (part 31)], 6500 comments.

and for this you gush thanks for helping ’spread the gospel’. Yeah sure this is an advert for the bible like the hindenberg is an advert for hydrogen powered zeppelins….. 300,000 of them…..

However as you seem intent ‘thanking’ me for the publicity, Im only too happy to give you what you lust for. – Everyones a winner!

My response: Yep, Thunderf00t, that success and $2.05 will get you a Vente at Starbucks. Keep up the good work!

Here is a comment from a past post. How would you answer this atheist? Does he have a valid point?

Hi Steve–

I find your videos with people standing on busy intersections really strange.

To me at least, if I were a pedestrian waiting at a busy intersection for a light to change while somebody was barking a sermon into my ear with a MEGAPHONE, I can pretty much guarantee that as I walked away with ears ringing, I wouldn’t be thinking “Gee! I need to get right with God, so I can spend eternity with THAT guy!”

I’m an atheist. People like you generate people like me.

—Captain Howdy

If I had no hope of an afterlife, and if I thought I was here by sheer chance (or something like that), and if there was no real purpose in life, I’d send one of these!

If I thought that I was put here on a pale blue planet for no other reason than to make a debilitating carbon footprint and to eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow I die, then I would send one of these.

And if I didn’t believe in God, was not culpable to a Being greater than I, had no fear of recompense for my moral failures—and sin…. If I was able to ignore my conscience and all those crazies warning me to repent because my time was short—then I  would send one of these cards to my temporal acquaintances who are simply living meaningless, purposeless lives.

Merry Christmas to all my unbelieving friends (who have no real reason to celebrate this season). C’mon, “Reasons Greetings” doesn’t really cut it now, does it? Does it?

(Want to read what’s inside the snowman card?) (more…)

I was delighted to find this little ditty by an atheist commenter under this post. 

IF
(by Weemaryanne)

If truth-or-dare is neither here nor there,
and if any fool’s a teacher –
If ignorant sass in science class
may reasonably feature –
If that’s the case, then slap my face
and welcome Stone The Preacher.

Have you read all seven parts of “You might be an atheist fundamentalist if…” yet?

Because of an atheist’s video I was able to be interviewed on a secular radio station in St. Paul, Minnesota about the “Origin of Species” book give-away on college campuses.

You can listen here to Patrick Reusse and Co. at am15000 KSTP. It’s at the very start of the show. (Just you wait, the evolutionists will say that I misrepresented their case.)

Because of an atheist’s video, my blog doubled, tripled, even quadrupled in visits last week! And they continue….

Because of an atheist’s video, over 260,000 people saw a few portions of my interview with Ray Comfort, further promoting the special 150th anniversary edition of Darwin’s “Origin of Species” with an introduction that includes the Law and Gospel.

So, just who is this atheist that I’m thankful for?

His name is Thunderf00t.

He saw my interview with Ray, cut it up, ridiculed it, posted it on YouTube and… furthered the Gospel message!

Who woulda guessed?

Thank you for all your efforts! And welcome to all the evolutionist/atheists who have visited so far. I appreciate you all! XXXXXOOOOOXXXO!