Atheist Tuesday: A Fool and Her Sign
This is an opportunity for you to comment on this image taken at last weekend’s Fiesta Hermosa. My question: What’s the point? I will fill in the details later in the week.
Atheist Tuesday: My End of the World Prediction
Yes. Everyone’s laughing at the false teacher who predicted that the end of the world was last Saturday at 6pm; the heartiest laughs reserved for 6:01.
I laughed too.
Though Jesus clearly stated that “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father,” (Mat. 24:36), people have been predicting the end of the world since Christ left this earth 2,000 years ago. One web site has even documented over 200 erroneous end-of-the-world predictions!
Following in such a grand tradition, I will now make my own end of the world prediction. Unlike all those other false prophesies I can guarantee with absolute certainty that my date will be correct. Am I a heretic also? I think not. Here’s my prediction:
Atheist Tuesday: The 3 Wise Men
In American culture too many people have admired the slapstick humor of The Three Stooges. These bumbling knuckleheads have promoted great guffaws among the populace with their illogical antics and silly pratfalls; their inane arguments and solutions to difficult situations have elicited great gasps of mass hilarity.
But that was for another time.
For these modern days we now have a triumvirate who are a bit more inventive in their approach to life and how it all works out. These men are very wise to the educated, models of inspiration for a new age and a more enlightened way of thinking. Who are these Mighty Men?
#1: Richard Dawkins (Oxford professor)
(Cue the laugh track) He wrote: “Evolution is a fact. Beyond reasonable doubt, beyond
serious doubt, beyond sane, informed, intelligent doubt, beyond doubt evolution is a fact. The evidence for evolution is at least as strong as the evidence for the Holocaust, even allowing for eye witnesses to the Holocaust.”
“It is a plain truth that we are cousins of chimpanzees, somewhat more distant cousins of monkeys, more distant cousins still of aardvarks and manatees, yet more distant cousins of bananas and turnips … continue the list as long as desired.”
Let’s here it for Professor Turnip!
#2: Stephen Hawking (theoretical physicist)
(Notice the Applause sign, please.) He said, “I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.”
Of all the gifts God gave this brilliant man, wisdom was not one of them.
Last but not least, is a man who continues to waste everyone’s time and money with frivolities. He is none other than…
Doo Dah Parade, Pt. 3: Atheists United Vs. Truth
Can you think of anything more foolish than a cadre of unbelievers declaring in unison that there is no God while marching in silly costumes at the 2011 Doo Dah Parade in Pasadena?
I can think of something more foolish: a cadre of believers preaching the truth that there is a God, a God who will hold them accountable for their actions and their unbelief. (Click here to start at PART 1)
“For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.” (1 Corinthians 1:21)
I haven’t seen Bruce the Atheist since 2008 when he and his friend Millstone Frank tried to persuade my daughter that there
was no God. She remained unconvinced and you can read about it here.)
Well, Lo and Behold! There was Bruce dressed up as a poor rent pilgrim proud of his blasphemous parade float and signs. There was only one thing to do: Preach. In fact we preached to this darkened crowd twice just to make sure they heard our message loud and clear!
Here’s the first session:
Want to see the second video where an atheist heckler shouts, “You’re an idiot! You’re an idiot!” until Bruce the Atheist whisks him away?
Atheist Tuesday: Famous Lost Words
Quick test: What do all these famous people, apart from being dead, have in common?
Madalyn Murray O’ Hair (1919-1995)
O’ Hair was the Founder of American Atheists. (Source here.)
Katherine Hepburn (1907 – 2003)
In an interview in the October 1991 Ladies’ Home Journal that was advertised as her
“most candid” ever, Hepburn said:
“I’m an atheist, and that’s it. I believe there’s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for each other.”
Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)
–From “Manual of a Perfect Atheist” by Rius,
retrieved from www.atheistempire.com
Voltaire (1694-1778)
(DISCLOSURE: It is reported by many sources that these words were from his lips. Others say he never said these things. You decide.)
“In twenty years Christianity will be no more. My single hand shall destroy the edifice it took twelve apostles to rear.”
His Physician said that Voltaire cried out most desperately [at the end of his life]:
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