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Saturday, October 20, 2007
Doug Giles :: Townhall.com Columnist
How to Shut Up an Atheist if You Must
by Doug Giles
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The atheist’s days of running circles around the Christian with their darling questions are drawing to a close. Yes, the fat lady just wrenched herself off her humongous backside, has cleared her throat and now is fixin’ to sing the finale on the atheist’s ability to have fun with their specious little fairy tales at the Christians’ expense.

That is if the Christian will buy, devour, commit to memory and stand up and challenge the pouty anti-God cabal with the atheist-slaying facts found in two new books from Regnery namely, What’s So Great about Christianity and The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Bible.

Authors Dinesh D’Souza and Robert Hutchinson skillfully answer, once again, the atheist’s pet questions about the existence (or non-existence) of God and how Christianity has allegedly made the world suck. Suck, for you thick atheists, is a slang word which means to make or to be really, really crappy (kind of like how our culture becomes anytime you guys mess with it).

These books will be especially beneficial for high school and college students to draw upon when their secular anti-God fuming delirious instructors start railing against God and Christianity.

For instance:

1. When the prissy anti-Christs tell you the Bible stands in the way of science, inform them that the greatest scientific geniuses in history were devout Christians—and scientists from Newton to Einstein insisted that biblical religion provided the key ideas from which experimental science could develop.

2. When the pissy God haters tell you the Bible condones slavery, you can remind them that slavery was abolished only when devout Christians, inspired by the Bible, launched a campaign in the early 1800s to abolish the slave trade.

3. When the screechin’ teachers tell you the Bible has been proven false by archaeology, hark back and show them that each year a new archaeological discovery substantiates the existence of people, places and events we once knew solely from biblical sources, including the discovery of the Moabite stone in 1868, which mentions numerous places in the Bible, and the discovery of an inscription in 1961 that proves the existence of the biblical figure Pontius Pilate, just to name a few. Continued...

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Doug Giles’ new book “A Time to Clash: Papers from a Provocative Pastor” is now available. Ann Coulter says "Doug Giles’ A Time to Clash is a substantive and funny tour de force for traditional values.” Doug’s award winning talk show and video blog can be seen and heard at www.ClashRadio.com.
 
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How to Shut Up an Atheist?
I don't understand any of this. Some people believe in a god and some don't. So What?

Simply based on the merits of the preceeding comments it seems all the judging and name calling seems to be coming from the peace loving, understanding and forgiving christians.

Not really a good christian example is it? See you make the atheists case.

I for one don't care if you believe in the cherry tree, if it helps you get through your day so be it. Why is there a need to attack others, turn the other cheek, right?

And why would a Christian want to shut up an atheist (or anyone) anyway when a simple "God bless you" will do? At least you would sound like a christian even if you don't demonstrate it.

The way to silence an atheist?
Mr Giles:
People don't comprehend the truth of the Gospel or come to Christ through intellectual excercises and foolish debates.

CS Lewis's "Mere Christianity" and Josh McDowell's book of Christian apologetics (Evidence that demands a Verdict) have had little success in converting non believers-and we believers don't need "logical" proof.

The things of God are spiritually discerned according to Paul in First Corinthians chapter 3 verses 18 and 19:

"Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God..."

Hence, no book of Christian apologetics will convince non believers-and we believers don't require "proof":

"Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God-not clever books of "logic"

That's the main weakness of the Christian conservative political movement today.

We are trying to create the Kingdom of God through our own political efforts-which lead only to frustration and anger at the wicked, and consequently we simply damage our testimony in the process.


Psalm 127:1 says: Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it"

Remember also, most of the Roman Emperors were Godless dictators as were many of the unelected Kings of Israel, such as Ahab and Herod, yet God's purposes were accomplished.
and will be in the future-regardless of who is our next President.

That is why I dont stay awake at night worrying about President Hillary or President Guliani.

The Bible says "Be still and know I am God"

So, why waste time or emotional energy debating with atheist fools?

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