Seen with my very own eyes: A Hobart bus with the sign, ‘ATHEISM Celebrate Reason!’
Looks like I’m with the atheists, again! I’m all for celebrating reason. Praise God! 🙂 Where’s the celebration?
Now, I could probably leave my response there, but Hey! I anticipated the atheist’s bus in my Christmas message: Enjoying God, enjoying life,
Apparently, coming to a bus near you is a Tasmanian version of the UK bus ads, ‘There’s probably no god. Now stop worrying and enjoy life.’
While Christians are enjoying life and celebrating Christmas precisely because there is a loving God [the Christmas message is ‘Emmanuel, God with us’]; some atheists are worrying that there is probably no God.
This is sad. It’s sad because life is to be enjoyed. How do we know this? Jesus Christ of Christmas fame told us, ‘I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance – to the full, till it overflows.’
And what of the bus drivers and passengers in buses carrying this sad message.
- Give them a wave, a knowing wink and a smile.
- Pray for folk burdened by the possibility of the existence of a god who doesn’t want them to enjoy life; this god is the opposite of the God Christians know.
- Pray they may see ‘God with us’, Jesus of Nazareth.
Jesus brings answers to life’s BIG questions:
- Who am I? – a child of a loving God.
- Where am I? – in God’s world.
- What am I here for? – to love God and my neighbour.
- Where am I going? – to share eternal life with all those who share in Jesus’ resurrection life.
Think about it: a reasoned and reasonable faith.
Articles referred to: I agree with Irish atheists and Enjoying God, enjoying life.
Hi Bishop,
“Jesus” does not answer the questions you mention in your post, as is all made up, like the tooth fairy, santa, Zeus, Allah and so many other fantasies.
Now celebrate reason and enjoy life, free of fantasies 🙂
Ahh the joy of engaging with a Jesus Mythologist.
I put to David the Van Voost question,
“What is the Jesus Mythologists explanation for the origin of the Christian Church without Jesus as its founder?”
This goes to the history question. Have a look at… http://www.bede.org.uk/price8.htm#F
The claims of Jesus about his own person are a much more interesting debate.
With the bus ads reading “Atheism – celebrate reason” atheists have, again, come very close to quoting that which the Bible has stated for almost 3,000 years, “‘Come now, let us reason together,’ says the LORD (Isaiah 1:18).
Also, the supposed most erudite atheist in the world are gathering in Australia for their convention while refusing to debate Christians:
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-34463-Albuquerque-Christian-Apologetics-Examiner~y2010m3d4-Atheism–celebrate-reason-while-absconding-from-reasoning
Reason? No, merely self-aggrandizing and self-professed pseudo-erudition.