The ugly hate directed towards Christians was on full display via Twitter last week after actor Chris Pratt offered his prayers for director Kevin Smith’s recovery from a massive heart attack. Here
Bill Whittle took note of the attack and drove right to the heart of what compels such ill will towards those of faith. Watch
“1 “All this I have told you so that you will not fall away. 2 They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. 3 They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. 4 I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember that I warned you about them. ”
John 16: 1-4
“33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
John 16: 33
I have no fear of those who hate me, OR hate Father, Son, or Holy Spirit. I feel sorry for them. I try to keep reaching them, but the Holy Spirit is ultimately in charge of such things. THEIR conversion is above my pay-grade; I leave all things to God’s direction.
2000 years ago, Christ was about 22 years old, had not begun his brief ministry that taught love, kindness, charity, loyalty, etc. About 15 years later, we hung the most perfect human to walk the planet on a cross to die a tortuous death. 3 days later, He rose from death to further prove Himself to be the true Son of God. Yet, our hatred persists, worse than ever today. This twisted irony will finally bring this world to an end.
The human race is the most persistently arrogant and blindly stupid species to defile what God has offered.
Pray.
It is a hatred of self that manifests in hatred of all that is good
Then I guess liberals won’t care one bit if I pray for them to soon experience agonizing deaths.
I will pray for the God haters and deniers that they will repent and save themselves from eternal damnation. The devil is working overtime in this world.
The leftists that mock people praying or offering prayers are the idiots that virtue signal by making their social media profile icons into gay flags or whatever country is hit by terrorists. Or they start stupid hashtags like ‘free our girls’. But they mock people offering ‘ineffective’ prayers. They make a lot of sense.
I wish I could conjure up the direct quote and where I read it. Probably here.
I paraphrase. (Poorly)
The condition of stupidity is like the condition of death. Everyone in the room recognizes their condition except the
dead or stupid. The dead don’t know they are dead. Likewise for the stupid.
That was admittedly a poor paraphrase and if anyone has the exact quote I’d appreciate reading it again.
@PHenry, I have a variation on your theory.
“Being stupid is like being a Skunk. He’s the only one in the room who doesn’t notice the smell.”
Sadly most people who hate God or God’s people have been on the bad end of a scenario where they treated God like a superstitious talisman and then became angry when He didn’t “perform.”
God wants relationship not a transaction of power for fame, fortune, or position. Acknowledge Him as Creator and allow His ways to become your ways. Recognize that He sacrificed the life of His one and only Unique Son to repair and bridge the gap between our sinfulness and His eternal perfection. Place Him in your heart and fear no more.
Satan. or Santa. They both wear red, their names are similar, and you never see them together.
As I tell the atheists when speaking to them. If I’m wrong, oh well. If you’re (atheists) wrong, enjoy hell!
One cannot hate what does not exist.
“Angry atheists” are people with emotional issues who are hating on something in their upbringing, their parents, traditions, rules, social values, something in their history that they perceive as having been abusive or unfair, or whatever else they have seized upon to blame for their unhappiness, which they have in some way associated with their religion of origin. They are emotionally retarded people who are rebelling and throwing tantrums, and also, ironically, frequently seeking community and substituted belief systems within the whacked-out Hollywood-type and socialist “activism” and propaganda and/or various obsessions and addictions.
The haters are going to hate and that is why I invest in semi precious metals- brass and lead mostly but some zinc and steel.
Well, a lot of steel because that is how the Russian Military orders their projectiles and I bought thousands of rounds of their surplus years ago. About 2008 if I recall properly. But I digress.
I had a good friend who although was born and raised RC, was an atheist but not a hater. He was near death and to end the pain, committed suicide. Because God is “I AM,” not I will be nor I was, and not constricted by man’s time, I pray for his soul.
How can someone “hate” God? I don’t get that at all. Full disclosure, I’m agnostic. Not the simple answer agnostic = atheist. It don’t work like that. I’m more along the lines of Thomas in the New Testament of the Christian bible. I do pray to God at times, for others, and I’ve studied the forms for doing so as the available user manuals recommend. When I do, I suspend my reservations and go whole heart. She may exist, and if I’m asking, I mean it.
But hating God? No, I think they must hate themselves and just don’t want that responsibility.
If there is no God, there wouldn’t be any atheists either
How can anyone who has witnessed something miraculous as watching a green and black caterpillar 🐛 spinna cocoon and emerge as a swallow tail butterfly not realize that there is not a higher power that also gave them the miracle of life? The caterpillar has its preordained metamorphosis and a butterfly is nothing like its predecessor, and it wasn’t an aspirational event. It’s a gift to humans to help them understand that there is a creator.
I know it is a clunky awkward way of saying that there is daily evidence of God.
PHenry, I was watching a video this morning featuring with Dennis Prager and Ravi Zacharias. I’ll probably post it to the main page tomorrow, but I thought you’d like to watch your same message being expressed by these brilliant men
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RutMHp2ID1I
In a word: Nihilism.
The socialist is nihilistic at heart and rejects God.
To enslave, murder, torture, and humiliate millions (upon millions) of your fellows, you must first reject God and all that that represents. You must see Man as the highest ideal of existence (yourself in particular) and thus we witness the idolization of persons of “power” and excuse their odious behavior.
Hitler
Stalin
Lenin
Mao
Pol Pot
L’il Kim Jong Un and his granddaddy Kim il Sung.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Barrack Hussein Obamo
William Jefferson Clinton
The list goes nauseatingly on.
Those of weak mind and/or sycophantic character will find someone to follow into the abyss.
Pure Satanism.
The izlamic world has adopted this philosophy disguised beneath the patina of a religion given to them by a man who was disgusted by the idolatry and Godlessness of his time and attempted (in his illiterate way) to show them the path to reverence of the Holy. His successors (similarly to many of the successors of Christ) perverted his teachings and beliefs.
At least, that’s my take on it, for what little it’s worth.
izlamo delenda est …
I drove down a country road today, each side with harvested corn fields. There was a large flock of birds (gulls? white and pale gray with long legs) across the road and in the fields. I slowed down and watched them take off. It was spectacular and I felt God’s grace. It’s the little things.
Jesus said it himself. They will hate you because they hated Me first.
Those living in darkness do not want the light shined upon them. To acknowledge there is s God is to acknowledge that you will be judged. That’s s sobering thought. To think that an all powerful being is in control of judging your life.
Thankfully, we have Christ, the atonement for sin. I can stand before God at judgement and know my sins are forgiven. All of them.
Amazing Grace!
https://youtu.be/MXhrCHVH3tc
😉
It’s a clash of wills.
Please include Wambam in your prayers – severe Diverticulitis for which she is scheduled for surgery tomorrow AM.
Thanks
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Will do.