I find myself in a CBC bubble and wonder if others do, too. I'm surrounded by good, solid, Christian men and women. My workplace is safe. My friends are safe. My world is safe here. But I sometimes forget what life is like in other circles. I was reminded in a dramatic fashion that there are untold numbers of people "out there" that are lost, hurting, and confused.
A group called the Rational Response Squad has offered up The Blasphemy Challenge. I was stunned as I watched the video. It seems over two housand people have already responded to the challenge.
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I have no idea what to say other than that it makes me really sad.
WARNING: What you are about to read may be shocking.
That was wild, but not suprising. We live in a society where church, religion, God, Jesus, anything dealing with Christianity is looked upon as silliness. Why is this so? I believe it is because the church has made it to easy to become a "christian", we have preachers who are afraid to talk about sin in fear that they will lose members, and we have preachers/men of faith who "speak" for the rest of Christianity, when sometimes all they do is just speak to hear themselves talk. Society doesn't care about the church because the church doesn't care about the church.
I ask, "How easy is it for someone to "become a Christian"? It is the easiest thing to do. Walk down the aisle, say a little prayer, and BAM!! you are a Christian. But does that really mean you are a "Christian"?
I ask, "When was the last time you heard a sermon speaking on the condition of man's soul and his need for a savior?" Now I have heard sermon after sermon talk about offerings, the war in iraq, the future growth of the church, who to vote for, do's and dont's, and at the end say "if you want to be saved come on down, as if the invitation was given by Rod Roddy from the Price is Right" but yet during the sermon, no mention of Christ, man's sinful nature and his transgression of the law. I think one of the major reasons for this is that we have preachers who shouldn't be preaching. My dad is a preacher and he told me once "If you can do anything else do it, but if you are called by God to preach then you must preach." I think what my dad said was true, but unfortunatly some preaches don't understand that you must be called. They just hear if you can't do anything else then be a preacher. We have too many people preaching because they couldn't do anything else, not because of a calling, but because they simply can't do anything else. They didn't apply themself in school, saw working in a church as the easy way and went for it.
Now is what I have said true of all churches and preachers, absolutly NOT!!.
I ask, "Do you want the popluar religious leaders in America to be the only voice of Christianity?" I know I don't and it's time that myself and fellow Christians start engaging with our culture and stop diengaging with it. When I see these men and women on tv saying things, I have to bit my lip because sometimes they say stuff that shouldn't be said. If you dont' know what I am talking about, just watch tv and you will see.
I have rambled enough for now.
Sophistic, self-righteous nonsense. The arguement that this is no God is as absolute a claim as anything in the Bible. Even the name of the group is self-serving: the Rational Response Group, as if a blind, unthinking rejection of anything spiritual is evidence of reason. It might carry more weight with me if its creator (small "C") had any scars on his face or was even old enough to shave.
In five or ten years when these teenagers have children, we'll see how their stance on the existance of God changes.
Now, if someone could prove there is no Texas, well, THAT is something I could get behind.
Seems to me that this is a HUGE marketing scheme to sell those new "There Ain't No Jesus and if you think there is, you're dumb" videos. Nothing moves more product than if it can refute the existance of God.
So, to recap: those people are NOT afraid to tell you they do NOT believe in the Holy Spirit, God, Jesus, miracles, heaven, hell or even forgiveness. And they got a free video for it. And you can give the free video too, or buy one and send it for Christmas. A holiday which celebrates the birth of...wait for it...
I find this all quite fascinating.
I think I'll go throw-up now.
I'm shocked, amazed, angry, sad, and more. What really amazes me in the videos is that they say they deny the existence of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Why, then, does their leader speak of Hell? If they don't believe in God, they don't believe in Heaven, right? Is there a Hell but no Heaven? If they believe that...talk about emotional torture.
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