Freedom from Religion

I’m still mulling over the “Imagine no Religion” billboards by the Freedom from Religion organization.

So imagine no Religion. Just imagine all the people who would no longer benefit from the money raised by Christian Aid Ministries ($211 million), Samaritan’s Purse ($237 million), Food for the Poor ($643 million), WorldVision ($804 million), Habitat for Humanity ($902 million) Feed the Children, ($958 million), Salvation Army ($3.1 billion), Catholic Charities ($3.1 billion, and, yes, the last two were billion with a B). And this doesn't count the the hundreds, if not thousands, of other smaller ministries, like homeless shelters, pregnancy centers and all the mission agencies which help the poor and sick.

I heard an atheist recently state that if we just gave up the idea of God, everyone would still give money to all these charities anyway. Unfortunatly, he demonstrates a profound misunderstanding of genuine Christianity. People who are truly Christian, don’t give money to charity because we think we are such good people.

On the contrary, we know we are not good people and that it is only because of the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ that we are accepted by God. The good that we do is out of gratitude for the grace God has shown to us. Without God, there is no guarantee at all that Christians would continue to give so generaously to strangers.

So go ahead. Imagine a world without religion. It's easy if you try. Just imagine what would happen to all the homeless, sick, poor, even starving people in the world if all the billions of dollars in Christian giving suddenly dried up.

Imagine no religion

The Freedom from Religion foundation is now funding billboards in several cities that say “Imagine no Religion.”

Go ahead, imagine no religion. All you have to do is study Communism, since atheism is a foundation for Communism. The advertisement for The Black Book of Communism says,

As the death toll mounts—as many as 25 million in the former Soviet Union, 65 million in China, 1.7 million in Cambodia, and on and on—the authors systematically show how and why, wherever the millenarian ideology of Communism was established, it quickly led to crime, terror, and repression (Harvard University Press).

When people want to talk about atrocities committed by "Christians," one of the biggest examples is usually the Inquisition. Estimates for the number of people the Roman Catholic Church executed during the Inquisition range from 32,000 to 125, 000.

Even if we assume the higher figure is more accurate, and rounded the number of Inquisition deaths to 100,000, that would mean that in the 20th century alone, atheist-Communists killed about 1,000 people for every one person killed in the Inquisition !

So go ahead, imagine no religion. It’s easy if you try.

Atheists believe in God?

According to a new Pew survey, 21% of those who claimed to be atheists, also said they believe in god and 10% pray at least once a week (Hot Air).


Sounds to me like some very confused atheists.

Charitable giving

Recently prominent atheists like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens have launched an all out attack on religion. The subtitle of one of Hitchens' books, for example, is "How religion poison's everything."

A recent study, on the other hand, says that churches are giving 8.8 billion dollars to developing countries! I am curious to know how much atheists are giving.

Richard Dawkins and Antony Flew

In his new book, There is a God; How the world’s most notorious atheist changed his mind, Antony Flew comments,

In his book, The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins propounds my old position that Einstein was an atheist. In doing so, Dawkins ignores Einstein’s categorical statement above that he was neither an atheist nor a pantheist. This is puzzling
because Dawkins cites [Einstein’s friend, Max] Jammer on occasion, but leaves out numerous statements by Jammer and Einstein that are fatal to his own case. Jammer observes, for instance, that Einstein always protested against being regarded as an atheist.’ (99-100).