Truly Amazing Christmas News
Posted by: tony on 12/30/2008 03:12 PM
Updated by: tony on 12/30/2008 03:19 PM
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Expires: 01/30/2009 12:00 AM
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 I had found my way over to The Raving Atheist's blog via Dawn Eden (now that is an oddity to contemplate in itself). I read his missives because he had a pro-life worldview seemingly devoid of God, and this intrigued me.
I took a look, read some comments and waded in. I found the commentariat to be a singularly humorless, acerbic and mostly nasty group. I engaged a couple of them, and discovered that rather than debating the existence of God, they were interested in scoring "points". Life's too short to engage in bad discussions, so I left.
So what do I hear via The Curt Jester?
The Raving Atheist has become the Raving Theist!
That's right. According to the blog entry, he has become Christian, and just in time for Christmas.
So I went over to offer my congratulations, and found that the vast majority of his echo chamber has turned on him. Starting off his walk with Christ with a little dry martyrdom is not an especially bad thing, but after reading all of the over 400 comments, I came to conclusion that Satan is alive and well in the atheist community.
The comments from Christians to RT were universally joyful and congratulatory. Those from the atheists were, with few exceptions, like wading in excrement.
Mark Shea emulated the freaking out, turning-over-tables Jesus:
Afraid not. Aquinas simply assumes the existence of his god and goes from there.
GP: If you'd stick your head outside the atheist echo chamber, you'd discover that you simply don't know what you are talking about. Before taking up the question "Does God Exist?" Thomas takes up the question of whether the existence of God is self-evident. He answers in the negative: http://www.newadvent.org/summa/1002.htm#article1 Try to have some idea what you are talking about instead of mindlessly regurgitating what your peer group tells you–especially if you are going to constantly chatter about your superior reasoning abilities. If you are going to have a superstitious fetish about the three pound piece of meat behind your eyes as magically superior to the rest of nature, you should at least give evidence (that talismanic word!) that you use it.
Heh, heh, heh... I couldn't have said it better myself.
Dawn Eden comments on her own blog:
Sharp-eyed viewers of my "Chastity Rome-Chick Blues" video, which he directed (as well as rewriting the lyrics to the Bob Dylan tune), have known his new moniker for a couple of years, as he sneaked it in during the closing credits.
"Couple of years"!!! LOL!!! (Ok, the burst of schadenfreude over the idea of stringing along those hateful people for two years is not a very Christian attitude. I'll have to stop that now.)
The "rationalists" seem to claim that nothing exists that is not discernible by their five senses. Over the years a lot of interesting discoveries have been made which have not been discernible by the naked eye or the naked ear. Did things like viruses not exist until the development of the electron microscope? Of course not.
God is not discernible by my five senses yet, but maybe some time in the future someone will invent a God-meter which will measure and possibly communicate with God. There will still be those atheists who will not believe it. The same people who are sure that man landed on the moon because they saw it on TV and that viruses exist because they saw them on an electron microscope will not believe the God-meter because their self image in invested in their non-belief.
Sad. And tragic too.
RT seems to believe and we can rejoice, as Jesus would, when a lamb who is lost is found.
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