I've been spending a lot of time reading apologetic authors, which really is the inspiration for starting this blog. It's amazing the connections you see between all these authors. I know many of our modern apologists build on the apologists of the past, but it doesn't make their arguments any less valid. In "Orthodoxy" last night I came across a passage where Chesterton was speaking of his conversion from atheism to theism. He mentions that it wasn't the Christian authors that ultimately changed his view on the existence of God, it was reading the works of atheists that changed his mind. "It was Huxley and Herbert Spencer and Bradlaugh who brought me back to orthodox theology. They sowed in my mind my first wild doubts of doubt." I think if one really studies the works and life of the key atheist and agnostic philosophers and writers you can see the contradiction and untenable position they are in!
I was listening to a lecture by Ravi Zacharias that he gave at Harvard, I believe, the other day on the radio. He was speaking on the subject of atheism and our modern secular society. He quoted this British journalist Steve Turner. The context of this discussion was that atheistic philosophies carried out to their logical conclusions and distilled to their smallest are too terrifying! They bring up the subject of evil, which of course brings up the subject of good and their origins. That, however, is a big discussion for another time!
Creed by Steve Turner
We believe in Marxfreudanddarwin
We believe everything is OK
as long as you don't hurt anyone
to the best of your definition of hurt,
and to the best of your knowledge
We believe in sex before, during, and
after marriage
We believe in the therapy of sin.
We believe that adultery is fun.
We believe that sodomy’s OK.
We believe that taboos are taboo
We believe that everything's getting better
despite evidence to the contrary.
The evidence must be investigated
And you can prove anything with evidence.
We believe there's something in horoscopes
UFO's and bent spoons
Jesus was a good man just like Buddha,
Mohammed, and ourselves
He was a good moral teacher though we think
His good morals were bad
We believe that all religions are basically the same
at least the one that we read was.
They all believe in love and goodness
They only differ on matters of creation,
sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.
We believe that after death comes the Nothing
Because when you ask the dead what happens
they say nothing
If death is not the end, if the dead have lied, then its
compulsory heaven for all
excepting perhaps
Hitler, Stalin, and Genghis Kahn
We believe in Masters and Johnson
What's selected is average.
What's average is normal.
What's normal is good
We believe in total disarmament
We believe there are direct links between warfare and
bloodshed.
Americans should beat their guns into tractors .
And the Russians would be sure to follow
We believe that man is essentially good.
It's only his behavior that lets him down.
This is the fault of society.
Society is the fault of conditions.
Conditions are the fault of society
We believe that each man must find the truth that
is right for him.
Reality will adapt accordingly.
The universe will readjust
History will alter.
We believe that there is no absolute truth
excepting the truth
that there is no absolute truth
We believe in the rejection of creeds,
And the flowering of individual thought
If chance be the Father of all flesh,
disaster is his rainbow in the sky
and when you hear
State of Emergency
Sniper Kills Ten!
Troops on Rampage!
Whites go Looting!
Bomb Blasts School
It is but the sound of man
worshipping his maker
Steve Turner, (English journalist), "Creed," his satirical poem on the modern mind. Taken from Ravi Zacharias’ book Can Man live Without God? Pages 42-44
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