Stalin > Dawkins et al. - A Straight Line

Atheists rage at the very thought of their being a straight line succession of thought from savages like Stalin to them. Believing themselves to be good people, they must fight any notion that if they were in power, they'd never ever try to eradicate Christianity by the means used by other like-thinkers.

“Individual atheists may do evil things,” says Richard Dawkins, “but they don’t do evil things in the name of atheism.”

No, atheists do evil because their atheism spawns a seething and irrational hatred for Christianity as demonstrated by Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens, Dennett, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Honecker, Castro, Ho, Marx, Engels, Lenin, Kim, Ceausescu and virtually every atheist that blogs about religion. The point of their agenda is, ‘Religion is harmful. Get rid of it and everything will begin to move toward civil society.’ Marx and Engels put it bluntly, “Abolish all religion and all morality.”

Richard Dawkins simply cannot bring himself to admit that atheism was the driving force from which atheists, directing governments made up exclusively of atheists were obsessed with spreading anti-God propaganda, and specialized in the murder of almost 100 million believers in the last century. Atheist Soviet rulers systematically and efficiently destroyed the majority of churches and killed the majority of religious leaders during a period from 1918 - 1941. This was not individual atheists perpetrating evil. This was individual atheists doing evil in the name of atheism. They were perpetrating evil, all according to the atheist driven agenda to eliminate Christianity from society.

Atheism is opposed to God and anything that smacks of His presence; especially the people who worship Creator God.

Because it is so absurd, I can only assume that Richard Dawkins finds the following comment amusing. When he’s confronted with the atrocities done by atheists in the name of atheism, Dawkins says with a straight face, “Well, Stalin also had a moustache. Maybe we should blame the death of Christians on people with moustaches.” Pathetic and pitiful more correctly describes Dawkins’ attempt to deliberately confuse the obvious. Dawkins and friends can’t even recognize how close they are to encouraging the Soviet experiment to repeat itself in the West. Like Russian atheists before him, in “Letter to a Christian Nation” Sam Harris bemoans, “the failure of our schools to announce the death of God in a way that each generation can understand.” He even goes on to say that some ideas are so dangerous that people may need to be killed simply for having those ideas. If you don’t see this as a dangerously secular idea, you are not an observer of history.

The fact is that in the 20^th century, a third of the world saw atheists pronounce the death of God throughout their nations. They declared it on billboards, in schools, government controlled publications, from speaker trucks roaming through the streets, over the radio and in secret jails where torture was used in an attempt to force Christians to deny their faith. Leaders in the underground Church in China spoke in our Church a few months ago. They told us that in today’s atheist China, secret worship services in homes, warehouses, and even groups meeting in the forests and fields are forcibly broken up. If caught, those who attended are beaten or killed or taken to reeducation camps, never to be seen again. The accounts they related made us squirm in our pews and wonder, “How would I do under such intense pressure?” Interestingly, these people didn't ask us to pray for an end to the persecution. Rather, they asked us to pray for their strength and courage to continue to spread the Word of God in spite of persecution.

In the 20^th century a hundred million people have been killed under the banner of atheism in its hatred of Jesus and the religion that worships Him. This pattern continues to this very day and there is no reason to expect that atheists who possess the needed power will stop anytime soon.

Why Not an Atheist President?

Atheists feel quite insulted that the majority of people would not elect them leader of the United States. Ya, like everyone else could get elected as long as they weren't an atheist.

Don't worry. Your day will come. Maybe. But here's the thing about why atheists can't get the votes.

The most dangerous thing about atheists is that they think they are good people. Stalin and Pol Pot etc. really thought that killing 90 million Christians was a good thing to do. More and more atheists today agree with Islamic extremists that Christianity should be outlawed, banished, removed from existence.

Reality is, normal people simply don't trust those who are so fantastically blind to their own nature.

In fact the only thing that is recognized as "wrong" by the atheists with whom I've interacted is what is generally called, crime. And even then, individual atheists pick and choose which behaviours should be called crimes.

For the atheist, moral behaviour is decided by:

a) society at large, IF they agree with what society thinks, or

b) the community, unless the atheist disagrees with the community. In that case it comes down to

c) the individual atheist according to h/her likes and dislikes.

When asked, "Are you a good person?" a response of, "Well, I haven't killed anyone," is seen as an acceptable answer.

Atheists must believe they are good people because one of their many points of dogma states, 

"I don't need God in order to be a good person." 

And, as long as they can point to someone who is visibly worse than they are, atheists truly believe that they are good people. This particular creedal point forces atheists to believe they are indeed someone who is good, someone who doesn't need the character transforming Spirit of Creator God in their lives.

So the average person on the street (someone who doesn't get sick or suicidal from looking at two steel beams in the shape of a cross) looks at the atheist's moral processing and thinks, if the levels of corruption that we see in government and even in ourselves occurs in people who recognize they need help to be good, what would it be like in people who think they don't need help?

Faith in Humankind

 How the materialists like to jeer at the naive faith of the Christian. Of course, from our side of the fence, we Christians stand amazed at the materialist intellectual's gullible willingness to believe anything but God. To take partial evidence and draw conclusions that match their desires seems as easy to an atheist as falling off a piece of cake ;-)

The biggest fable that materialists believe is that humans can create a civilization of equality, peace, love, truth, and progress in love toward one another.

Today's neo Stalinists are identical to those in 20^th century Russia. It was those who prided themselves on being unencumbered with superstition, those who viewed religion as a feature of the childhood, who fell for this fable in the tens of thousand. The more educated they were, the more likely they were to be fooled. 

It's no different today.

While all of these atheists are sure there is no heaven, the reality of the world around us is causing a few to fear that there may be no earthly paradise either. 

Most however continue ignore all previous failures at human utopia building.

“Every day and in every way we're getting better and better.”

Belief in this fable may not offer modern day followers of Trotsky great happiness, but their faith does allow them to feel superior to their neighbours. They continue to slander the kingdom of heaven while praising the fanciful utopias of man.

Did this scientific, anti God societal experiment produce good people. Did atheists in Russia create a good society? No one that I know thinks so. Instead, Russia has gone from a police state in the 20^th century to a state or organised crime in the 21^st.

Today's North American atheists point to semi secular nations (now known for organised drug distribution, prostitution and at-home delivery of death), not even one generation removed from a Christian base, and think that this is what an atheist utopia would resemble, sans Christianity of course. Not so. Any nation without a majority of Christian citizens, without a Christian moral bases for its laws and leaders to follow will – must – become totalitarian to keep it from sliding into anarchy and self-destruction. 

David Silverman Rips a Page

Atheist leader David Silverman seems to not care that his tactics and those of his fanatical followers are blatantly copying the very tactics of Stalin, Trotsky and Lenin. The attempts of American Atheists to rid the West of Christianity are like watching a blow by blow accounting of atheist Russia hardly a generation ago. Silverman and Greta Xtina and company are using the same language, working towards that same dreams, and appealing to the same type of people as Russian atheists did in the 20th century.

For example Russian atheist leaders:

. Attempted to create a society that was the opposite of a faith in God. Rather it was a faith in Human ability. Ring a bell Hugo?

. Told children and adults that what science couldn't explain didn't need explaining.

. Schools were totally secularized. Religious teaching of any kind was forbidden.

. Outlawed any teaching of Christianity to children under 18 – not in the school, not in Church, not in the home, not anywhere. It was considered abusive.

. Taught children that science can do what God cannot

. Held conferences where the key topic was how to combat religion.

. Launched advertising campaigns of anti-religious propaganda

. Established “Unions of the godless”

. Mocked Christmas and Easter as having been stolen from pagan holidays

. Changed “Christian” holidays into secular holidays

. Put mocking images and cartoons of Jesus in News Papers

. Provoked Church Leaders in the hopes that they would in some way retaliate.

. Made a concerted effort to erase any belief in a supernatural interpretation of life.

. Brought about reforms that decreed that the word “God” must in the future be spelled with a lower case “g”.

. The sale of Christmas trees was strictly forbidden. This is and has been a common theme of atheist dictators everywhere they have existed. Just as Silverman and atheists in the United States are using the Red Cross and Boy Scouts of America as excuses to do the same.

. Changed the Christmas celebration to a wholly secular celebration

. Prayer in all public places and by all public officials was outlawed

. Christianity was to be reduced to a private and secret matter.

. To preserve atheist authority, childhood indoctrination was of utmost importance to Silverman – er, I mean to the Stalin, Trotsky and Lenin atheists.

. Churches could not use their property for any purposes but religious. They could not give charity to outsiders. If there had been a highschool football team eating a pre game meal in a Church, Russian atheists would have stopped it.

. Religious symbols were banned from public buildings.

. Religious processions and open-air services were banned.

. Private religious schools and all public funding of private religious schools was ended.

. Teachers were instructed to teach children that God and Christ were equivalent to mythological figures, ghosts and fairies.

. People should be told that Churches were hoarding wealth instead of giving it to the poor.

. Russian atheist leaders never relented in trying to drive the very idea of God out of the public's mind.

. They never relented to implementing and wholly materialist, scientistic consciousness in the minds of society.

. They knew that if they could control the schools and youth movements, they could get rid of unwanted beliefs in a generation or two.

. Atheist leaders taught that those who refused to allow the morals and faith of their children to be undermined were actually abusing the minds of their children.

Sound familiar? Will atheists in North America follow their leaders like sheeple into another atheist social experiment?

“One of Lenin's great achievements, in my opinion, is to create a secular Russia.”

Christopher Hitchens

And as Greta xtina says, “We’re working towards a world where it (religion) no longer exists.”

The self-delusion that the progress of man-kind simply needs to have the right leader to bring about a utopia on earth, an atheist driven utopia on earth, continues to this day. There is plenty of evidence to suggest that a human created utopia will never happen. 
Jesus the Christ and His message stands firmly in the road of the atheist wish-fulfilment and THAT is what atheists cannot and will not tolerate.

Jesus came to counter our culture. He came to right our faulty thinking. He came to earth in the lowliest form to lead us home, to a home free from totalitarian rule, to a home free from the concept of might makes right.

Merry Christmas

God Bless

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Doing It Right

I meet so many people who are genuinely surprised to find themselves doing harm to those they love. I was sitting with a couple the other day. They weren’t totally hostile to Christianity yet, they were surprised at how badly they treated each other (he’d just started an online affair - she'd been super critical of him since day one). They didn’t want their souls to change, but neither did they want to live with the consequences of their behaviours.

Do you see the problem here?

When we are wrong on the inside we can’t even WANT to do what’s right. Oh sure, we can love those who love us. Who can't? But when my love for you is based on you loving me first, well, that's a recipe for destruction. This doesn’t mean that non Christians must always be Charles Mansons or Stalins. It does mean that non redeemed souls will most often put themselves first, even in their most important relationships. What these people really want is to continue being “wrong on the inside” but not experience the consequences of being wrong. Even when their conscience tells them they’re treating each other wrong, their whole inner being is tilted away from the right things. The "right things" aren't even recognised as options. This is why Christopher Hitchens and others like him hate so terribly the very thought of God watching over them. What God wants for them is the very opposite of what their unregenerate heart wants for themselves.

In my own life:
Only Jesus could reverse the trending downward to self-destruction.
Only Jesus could make His law attractive to me.
Only Jesus could make His way of life seem important.
Only a character that’s was changed by Jesus could come to see sin for the horror that it truly is.

On CNN the question was asked, “Should parents in a struggling marriage stay together for the children?” The majority of the people thought not eg., “I left my husband because I didn’t want my children to believe that they had to “just settle.” I want them to go after happiness.”

It didn’t occur to anyone to ask, “Should parents in a struggling marriage change the way they treat each other for the sake of the children; should they change so that their children can learn how to love?” Had that question been asked, the answer would have still been - “No - We’re not willing to change.”

And why aren't they willing to change?

Because we CAN’T treat each other good - we can’t even WANT to treat each other good - when we ourselves are not good.

Jesus allowed divorce for one reason only - “Because of your hard and evil hearts.”

If you knew that you possessed a hard and evil heart, wouldn’t you want to change that aspect of your nature?

Wouldn’t you?

And if not, why not?

Hard and evil hearts cannot show the love and mercy and forgiveness that all marriages need. Healing a marriage requires that the people themselves change, and that is precisely what people are not willing to do. Many people won’t even admit that inner change is necessary. “I’m a good person” is the mantra of atheists. So convinced are people that it’s not their fault, that after a divorce they quickly marry someone new fully expecting that this time things will be better. Statistics say otherwise.

I address this in a multi part series, http://makarios-makarios.blogspot.com/2006/12/will-i-ever-find-partner-whos-good-for.html

Until Jesus changes who we are, we simply don’t have loving those who are difficult to love as an option. So our children are left with the pattern of walking away from difficult relationships.

Without Jesus in our hearts, without Jesus as Lord and Master of our lives, our children will not even have the option of doing it right.