Atheist Tuesday: Ebert’s Egregious Emptiness
This article written by Ray Comfort, from the Living Waters Newsletter, is just too good—and too poignant—not to reprint. (Subscribe to the newsletter here.)
The well-known movie critic, Roger Ebert, who tragically died recently, said, “Many readers have informed
me that it is a tragic and dreary business to go into death without faith. I don’t feel that way. ‘Faith’ is neutral.”
But this is what Ebert also wrote about his impending death: “I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.” He believed that there was nothing on the other side. Faith and fear are opposites. If you are fearful of stepping into an elevator it’s because you lack faith in it. If you have faith and therefore trust it, you won’t fear. Ebert didn’t fear death because of what he “believed.” Again, he believed he had faith, he trusted that there was nothing after death.
Rich the Atheist Hates God
Meet Rich. He’s an atheist. After a conversation with him on the campus of El Camino College last week, he left with these choice words thrown in our direction: “When I see God I will tell him that he’s a nut job. F— God!” Question: Why would he utter such blasphemous words? Answer: Presuppositional apologetics.
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