In The News - Commentary by Kim

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Sunday, June 04, 2006

The Atheist Agenda

Mt. Soledad Cross that several organizations are attempting to have removed


There is a movement in this country by Atheists and Atheist Organizations to remove any mention of God in our country. The movement includes everything from the removal of prayer in schools, the Ten Commandments from government buildings, to crosses of war veteran memorials on public properties. You have to wonder why there is such a strong, united effort to remove something that you don't even believe in.

I did a little web-surfing to Atheist websites and I found that they all had one thing in common. There was a lot of bashing of Christianity, Christians, the Bible, and Jesus. Of course, no surprises there. However, it seemed as though Christianity was the only religion strongly criticized. If an atheist is a person who doesn't believe in the existence of God, then why aren't other religions given equal bashing time? Plenty of other religions believe in some type of god. For instance, Muslims believe in Allah, and Hindus believe in millions of gods; hence, millions of bashing opportunities you'd think. I think the answer to this question lies in the same reason the Atheist movement is so strongly trying to remove all remnants of Christian symbols from public places.

I conclude that the real issue they are dealing with isn't an unbelief in God, but rather an enmity towards Christ.

Christ, and the removal of anything linked to Him or His ideals and values, seems to be their driving force. This strong desire to rid this country of Him has driven these people to form entire organizations for this sole purpose, and carry law suits to State courts as well as the highest court in the land, the U.S. Supreme Court. I contend that you do not spend that amount of time, energy and money on something that you believe is only a figment of other's imagination in the first place. The belief must certainly be there.


Psa 14:1
The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God."

Rom 1:19
because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them.
Rom 1:20
For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.

posted by Kim Ferguson @ 6:10 PM  

24 Comments:

  • At Wednesday, June 07, 2006 6:58:00 AM, Blogger Jay said…

    Gosh...nobody told me about this during my atheist meetings.

    Maybe I was too busy looking at my guidebook, "Bashing Christians for Dummies".

     

  • At Thursday, June 08, 2006 7:33:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Thank you so much Kim for your kind words and prayers. We really appreciate them..

    Newfie Girl

    http://newfiegirl.blogsome.com

     

  • At Thursday, June 08, 2006 7:36:00 PM, Blogger Kim Ferguson said…

    Aahh, OtherMichelle, so not only is God a figment of my imagination, but also these attempts to get rid of crosses from public properties, taking God's name out of the Pledge of Allegiance and on currency, Christ's name off of "Christmas", the Ten Commandments from schools and government buildings, etc. etc., are also figments of my imagination too, huh? I guess I also imagined all the atheist websites I visited that discriminately criticize Christians, Christ, and the Bible either exclusively or overwhelmingly more than any other religions.

    No Michelle, I am not hallucinating. There is certainly a war. However what I did leave out was that the underlining force behind this war is Satan. The scriptures tell us:

    Eph 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual {forces} of wickedness in the heavenly {places.}

    It is a spiritual war that we are battling.

    But Jesus even warned us that things would be this way:

    Jhn 15:18 "If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before {it hated} you.

    Jhn 15:19 "If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.

    Jhn 15:20 "Remember the word that I said to you, 'A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also.

     

  • At Thursday, June 08, 2006 7:38:00 PM, Blogger Kim Ferguson said…

    To Newfie girl: Sure! I will keep you and your dad in my prayers. YSIC, Kim

     

  • At Saturday, June 10, 2006 7:32:00 AM, Blogger Kim Ferguson said…

    Michelle, I really am not understanding your post. What "rights" am I impeding of yours? My article was pointing out the fact that atheist and atheist organizations are trying to take out any mention of Christ in our country and the fact that they go after Christians nearly exclusively. (Which is true) Where did you get anything about stopping your rights out of that?

    Furthermore, you said that you couldn't believe that I quoted Bible verses to you but you had just quoted one yourself when you talked about Jesus stating about those prophesying in His name. So I am confused. Do you put any stock in the scriptures or don't you? BTW, I think that verse you were referring to is:

    Mat 7:21 "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven {will enter.}
    Mat 7:22 "Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?'
    Mat 7:23 "And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.'

    You see He is saying that not everyone who claims to be a Christian is really a Christian. He is NOT saying that no one can prophesy in His name, as you seem to believe from you comment. Obviously, the entire Bible is a prophecy and the Lord has many prophets that He spoke with and gave His word to pass on to His people.

    Also, I didn't really think you would care about the Bible quote yourself, but I am also referring to God's word for the benefit of others that may come and read these posts.

    Why do you assume that I watch Falwell and Robertson? Maybe you know more about them than I do.

    Michelle it seems as though you believe that Christians should be sinless. The difference between "true" Christians and others is that "true" Christians have completely recognized the fact that we are hopeless sinners without any hope of saving ourselves out of our sinful state by our own efforts. We have recognized that we need someone to save us out of our hopelessly sinful state in which we fully deserve eternal punishment for our sins. We have accepted what Christ's death on the cross as the substitution for the punishment we fully deserve. You see, we are hopeless sinners who deserve death and He was the only completely sinless human that ever lived who did not deserve the death that He received. SO He is the ONLY one qualified to be the substitution for our punishment, being sinless Himself. All He wants us to do is to admit that we are hopeless sinners, hate our own sinful state, admit that we need Him to save us from our sinful state, verbally accept His free gift of salvation, and make HIm our Lord in order that He can make us more like Him. Now, making us more like Him (sinless) doesn't happen overnight. It is of course a process, which we call sanctification. Rome wasn't built in a day and neither are perfect Christians. But we fully trust that the Lord is continuously making us like Him and He is to me every day. Yes, sometimes I fall short but the Lord is still working on me. All others outside of Christianity, regardless of the religion or philosophy, are trying to make themselves right by their own efforts and merits based on what "they" do.

    And that is basically the full good news of the Gospel which is really a love story of the creator for His creation.

     

  • At Saturday, June 10, 2006 7:47:00 AM, Blogger Kim Ferguson said…

    Oh, I forgot to mention that the "war" I was referring to, as I said in my post, is a Spiritual war. Of course you have a right to believe whatever you want. That is your "God-given" right. He gave it to you. But as believers, we must fight by our prayers and to continue to proclaim the good news as I mentioned in my last post. I just need to let people know what Jesus did for them and then they have a right to decide to believe it and accept it if they want. If they don't want to, that is their right, but everyone should at least hear it in order to be able to make an informed choice.

     

  • At Saturday, June 10, 2006 8:25:00 PM, Blogger Traci Anerson said…

    theothermichelle ,

    It is a spiritual war. Atheists are not the enemy...but satan and his principalities. Our weapons are spiritual. They are truth, the gospel, faith, the imputed righteousness of Christ, the Word of God and assurannce of our salvation.

    We do not hate atheists and/or pagans (or whatever). We work and laugh with you everyday. We care for you and also mourn with you. We love you.

    Our war is not with you.

     

  • At Saturday, June 10, 2006 8:26:00 PM, Blogger Traci Anerson said…

    Hi Kim! It's nice to meet you BTW! :)

     

  • At Monday, June 12, 2006 7:19:00 PM, Blogger Kim Ferguson said…

    Hi Tracifish! Well stated!!!

    Thanks for visiting and commenting on my site. I like your site and I have bookmarked it.

     

  • At Wednesday, June 14, 2006 10:27:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    A couple things. As I understand it, atheists want to remove god from government-funded buildings not the entire country as you stated.

    Why do Christians quote scripture to atheists when they talk to them? Don’t you know it only serves to irritate them? It is like speaking gibberish at them and thinking you made a point. It just does not work.

    To answer you’re question though I believe Atheists criticize Christians because they are the majority in this country, in other places I’m sure they criticize the other dominant religions.

     

  • At Thursday, June 15, 2006 9:06:00 AM, Blogger Kim Ferguson said…

    Thanks James for taking the time to visit and comment on my site.

    I have a challenge for you. If you believe that other religions are criticized the same way Christians are in some other places where they are the majority, then find some instances for me. Because I know that in so many different countries where Christians are even the minority, they are persecuted to more than any other religion besides Jews. You even have dominant religions persecuting the small minority Christians. There is a reason why Satan targets Christians and Jews the way he does.

    I already mentioned in my post that the reason I quote Bible scriptures is not just because I am quoting them to the atheist but for the benefit of someone else who may run across the post that it might help.

    Isa 55:11 So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It will not return to Me empty, Without accomplishing what I desire, And without succeeding {in the matter} for which I sent it.

    So you see, GOd said that His word will not come up void, so anytime we quote His word, even if it "irritates" someone, it is doing what it was intended to do, maybe cause conviction in the heart of the person. If they think that the quote is "gibberish", then why in the world would it "irritate" them? If someone quoted verses from the Koran to me, it certainly wouldn't irritate me since I put no stock in it. So the fact that the person is irritated by the quote that they claim to believe is gibberish must mean something. There is definitely power in the Word of God and that power does things in people, even those that claim they don't believe it.

    Rom 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

     

  • At Thursday, June 15, 2006 1:28:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    When you are trying to reason with someone and they start, quoting from Oh lets say the book..."Alice in wonderland" it would be annoying. It is the fact that they try to make points in fact from something that is not factual in the opinions of others. If we were to have the same discussion and you quoted news articles I would feel like it were a serious discussion. When you quote the bible, it only serves to strengthen the opinion that you are delusional (to others).

    You cannot quote the bible to prove the bible. It is circular reasoning and a logical fallacy.

    As for other religions, I would say right now there is no other religion that is as widely dismissed mocked and held in disdain as Islam. I know many Atheists and none of them really ever worry about religion at all. They are annoyed, as am I, when Christians try to legislate morality and I think that is where the rub comes. There is an attitude that is prevalent among Christians that has led to the war on drugs and many other morality based maws that are literally killing this country.

    It is not the move “away from God” that is destroying America. It is the oppression of the rights of others in the name of God.

    Again I’m for everyone’s rights, I come form a strong religious background the son of a 3rd generation preacher. Either America is free or it is not.

    I believe in freedom.

     

  • At Thursday, June 15, 2006 2:57:00 PM, Blogger Kim Ferguson said…

    James, I think you have missed my whole point. The only thing I am interested in is being obedient to the command from Jesus to proclaim His gospel. I am going to do that regardless of the reaction of others. Also, I said that I didn't only quote the scriptures for Michelle's sake whose post I was responding to, but to anyone else that the Lord may draw to the site to read it. There could be many reasons why the Lord has me write His word on my site. Maybe someone comes around who does not know the gospel and upon reading my response, may hear the gospel and come to know Christ. Perhaps it is the person that I was responding to or others, that even though they don't believe, they have had the opportunity to hear and therefore now responsible for what they have heard when they stand before the Lord one day to give account for their life. He can show them that He did try to reach out to them with the good news of His gospel. But whatever the reason the Lord has me proclaim His word in this instance, it is definitely for a reason and I should be obedient. I don't care if someone thinks I am delusional as you have said, nor am I ashamed of the gospel because it has the power of bringing salvation to people who hear it and believe.

    Muslims persecuted more than Christians and Jews?! Where?! Just the opposite. Because of all of the extremists out there, there is a movement even in our own country to show that Islam is a peaceful religion and you are looked upon as intolerant if you don't believe so. Now take a look at how these predominatey Islamic countries treat Christians. And I am not only talking about simply "mocking" and "disdain", but all out torture and murder - real persecution. You may have to do some digging because mainstream media will not report it since it is not "PC", as I have said, to say anything negative about Islam.

    Did I understand you right? Are you saying that the war on drugs is the Christian's attempt to legistlate morality? Are you saying that the war on drugs is destroying our country?

    The move away from God is definitely what is destroying our country because what has made us great was God in the first place. I know our pride would like to think that we did this by ourselves but it is not true. God has blessed us and if we keep telling Him that He is not welcome in our country, we may get exactly what we ask for.

     

  • At Thursday, June 15, 2006 2:59:00 PM, Blogger Kim Ferguson said…

    Oh, one more thing - are you saying that Christians are oppressing others by supposedly leading a war on drugs and other legistlation? I want to know exactly how we are oppressing others in our country.

     

  • At Friday, June 16, 2006 12:56:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I certainly do not think you should not believe what you want because of others, I’m just trying to explain as a neutral why the feel that way.

    I am saying legislating ones morality is building on quicksand. Morality does not exist it is ones personal beliefs. Morality is different form person to person as is religion.

    The war on drugs is definitely in a large part destroying our country.

    You do not live in a Muslim country so I fail to see your point. I mean you do know there is a history there right, and Christian’s hands certainly are not clean in it.

    Christians definitely try to keep those they morally disagree with on the outside in America. Christians also picket outside soldiers funerals with god hates fags signs, and blow up abortion doctors. I know what you will say, they are not Christians they are extremists. That is the same thing the Muslims say is it not?

    Lastly, I certainly do not expect you to agree with any of this. The main problem I have with religion is that it makes one incapable if seeing things from any perspective other than “my bible says”. Most on the Christian coalition would tell you they believe in freedom and America yet when you start talking about real freedom they balk. They believe in THEIR freedom to practice THEIR religion and do what THEY want. If anyone crosses their moral boundary, they want to pass a law against it.

    As long as they operate this way, they really cannot complain of being oppressed. The world need to learn that we should all be free to be what we want and quite trying to force others to live in our mold. Muslims are scary for precisely this reason adherence to strict dogma, intolerance of others, and running their governments accordingly.

    If the people who protest abortion but cheer the death penalty think, they are much different from those that behead infidels they are mistaken.

    Sharia law is based on morals would you consider it right?

     

  • At Sunday, June 25, 2006 9:51:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Two observations:

    1) In talking with Atheists, I've learned that "they don't believe in God" is really a myth. In truth, Atheists hate God. And you don't hate something that you don't believe in.
    2) The best commentary that I've heard regarding the Mt. Soledad cross was quite simple: They want to blow up the cross in the name of freedom of religion.

    -Midnight
    http://www.minutes2midnight.blogspot.com

     

  • At Monday, June 26, 2006 12:44:00 PM, Blogger Kim Ferguson said…

    -Midnight
    Hi and thanks for commenting on my site.

    Yes, you have stated my whole point to the post- that atheists don't really have a disbelief but a hatred. That is what I meant by this quote:

    "I conclude that the real issue they are dealing with isn't an unbelief in God, but rather an enmity towards Christ."

    So I agree totally with you.

    Yes, and even though having a cross on a Memorial doesn't force them to believe or practice our religion, they want it removed for some strange reason. It isn't hurting anyone there at all. It only gives some comfort but they don't care about anyone but their own agenda.

     

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  • At Sunday, July 02, 2006 9:16:00 AM, Blogger Kim Ferguson said…

    Thank you for your encouraging words.

     

  • At Sunday, July 02, 2006 5:36:00 PM, Blogger Kim Ferguson said…

    BTW anonymous, why you don't make one like this? If you decide to, return and give me the link so I can visit.

     

  • At Tuesday, July 11, 2006 1:17:00 PM, Blogger KC said…

    I heard a preacher on tv say it once.. YOU know GOD is Real simply by the way people speak out against him, for example... you never hear anyone say BUDDHA-DAMN, or OH MY MOHAMMEAD, OR KRISHNA HELP ME! As they say there are NO athiests in FOXHOLES!

     

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  • At Saturday, September 02, 2006 9:19:00 PM, Blogger Amal said…

    Do you really feel like there is a war on religion?

     

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