Did you you catch the story in the Wall Street Journal this week about athiests ("non-believers") placing ads on buses in Washington, D.C., buying billboards in Madison, Wisconsin, and other cities promoting secularism over religion?
The article says that the "non-believers" feel that their movement is growing and now's the time to come forward so that other non-believers can feel more comfortable in public about being athiests.
These groups don't advertise on Rush Limbaugh and Bill O's radio programs, but they do get their message out on Air America.
The article says that this is a critical time for athiests to reach out as a new administration prepares to take office in the White House.
Now when I was in college, I had a Jewish fellow living on my dorm floor so when the rest of us left on Christmas vacation, we wished him "Happy Hannukah!"
What would we have done if we had an out-of-the-closet athiest?
Well, it seems they like to shop and at least enjoy some of the holiday trimmings. But instead of Christmas or Hannukah, they prefer the "HumanLight" holiday. It's a time when they can sing from the Humanist Hymnal, decorate a winter wreath and light a candle for a personal hero -- maybe John Wayne or James Bond.
And we used to laugh when George Costanza and his family celebrated "Festivus for the Rest of Us" on Seinfeld.
However, it seems there is a slight problem with the athiests...er, non-believers. When a preacher asks her or his congregation to stand, they all stand. However, it turns out the athiests are a divided bunch. A third might stand, a third might sit and the other third will want to argue about it. Go figure.
If that's the future, "give me that old time religion, it's good enough for me."
Merry Christmas!
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And God bless us everyone! said Tiny Tim the last of all.
"Today you will be with me in paradise."Jesus said that to one of the men,suffering to his death, beside him on a cross.To me that meant Jesus and the man were going somewhere else.To a real place,the Bible talks of houses, cattle,probably green pastures to feed the cattle,and it's paradise so the weather that day is perfect!I think non-believers have no concept of an afterlife and that's why it's hard to believe.I have a friend who owned land in the Snowy Mountains.It was beautiful there!Mountain flowers grew wild,tall pine trees and meadows,spring water,to drink,that ran endlessly into a basin and the South fork of Flatwillow creek ran through the middle,lots of fish!To get to his land was a long drive.Then padlocked gates and big ranches on eitherside of his land prevented access to most people.I can tell you all about this place.Chances are you will never see it,so you can believe me or not.The after-life is alot like my friends land.People maybe having a picnic in the mountains,on his land,on a sunny summer day,but we don't know because we are not there.The same holds true in the after-life.One of the most profound things Jesus asked when he rose from the dead and it opened my eyes to the reality of REAL life after death was,"Do you have any meat?"HE WAS HUNGRY!Just like you and I in this life,His new body wanted something to eat.(There is something we all can understand.)The folks we love eat after they leave us and go on.Once that sunk in I went from one thought to another about what could be going on "in Paradise".The lose we have here is the gathering of the generations on the other side.It would take a miricle to get back to my friends land,as he has passed on now.Much like the miricle it would take to get to the life here-after.My hope is a non-believer or even one who believes can read what I've wrote and make a little sense of the After-life.It's a real place with real people doing real things,like eating!
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