Okay. Maybe I’ve been a little harsh on the atheists who visit here; I haven’t given them enough credit. I’ve focused on the negative maybe a little too much and haven’t given kudos to the positive achievements that radical unbelievers have brought to our society. Well then, in the spirit of mea culpa, actually, in the spirit of mea maxima culpa, let me report to you the latest developments in positive atheism.
A wonderfully giving group of students at the University of Texas at San Antonio handed out free magazines to fellow collegians on campus! That’s right. Members of the Atheist Agenda offered free pornographic publications to anyone who turned in their Bible. Their bright red signs covered in large black letters said: “FREE PORN” and “SMUT FOR SMUT. “We want to spread atheism and bring it more to the spotlight. We offer another alternative to people who might not fit in anywhere else,” explained Kyle Bush, the group’s president.
A big hand to the atheist’s contribution to literacy! Yay! (Read more here.)
In other news, Florida atheists fought against superstition by washing away a blessing placed upon a local highway by a religious group.
ATHEIST TUESDAY & The Everyday Club Report for April: Is Evangelism Effective?
An atheist asked: How effective are your actions at bringing the lost closer to Jesus?
If by “effective” you mean: Do I actually see lots of conversions with people becoming Christians and attending church, becoming missionaries, feeding the homeless, visiting prisoners and adopting babies?
No.
My church, Hope Chapel, has handed out over three million Gospel tracts and has graduated close to a thousand evangelism trainees. I, personally, have had hundreds, if not thousands of one-to-one conversations with individuals, and have preached the Gospel in the open air hundreds of times to thousands of people since making a commitment to share my faith everyday on January 1, 2004.
The result? I don’t know. I would say, at best, we’ve had a hundred visitors— maybe more, probably less—as a result of our evangelism efforts. If I measured our effectiveness by what I see then I’d say that we are doing dismally, miserably—and we ought to give up. Because, after all, what’s the point?
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