So yesterday my obsessive-compulsive need to save EVERYTHING payed off — yet again — as the home office tried to throw me under the bus. Tech support was in a flurry because our old web server went down, and I had hosted some iframe source pages on that server. That meant the big project I’ve been working on for several weeks was singing “Daisy” and everybody was pointing their fingers at me for hosting on the old server. I went back and found emails where I had BEGGED for direct access to our new web server and been repeated denied access.
So remember: every time you point a finger, there are three pointing back at you, and someone may have documentation to back up those fingers.
I’ve been listening to a lecture by A.E. Wilder Smith on Time and Creation, available at www.swrb.com (Puritan Videos). In this lecture, Dr. Wilder-Smith says that God created both space and time. My question is this: where was God, and what was he doing, before he created space and time?
I just got through reading The Birmingham News’ article Birmingham’s Larry Taunton touts ‘The Grace Effect’ to counter atheist arguments on al.com. Larry Taunton is either ignorant of history, or he just likes to lie for Jesus. If he had any knowledge of the former Soviet Union and its dissolution, he’d realize that freethought of the kind exhibited by prominent atheists like Hitchens and Dawkins was never evident in the Soviet Union. His “godless” atheist state was actually a form of religious statism, where the government and the Communist Party took the place of God in the public’s pantheon. As soon as the Party lost power, the people packed the new churches, most of them going back to the Russian Orthodox and Catholic churches they’d secretly supported for decades.
In this interview, he says that in the Ukrainian orphanage system, “children are treated as having no value… They are the discarded of society, subject to abuse and suffering.” How is this any different from the foster system in the United States, where as much as 80% of the population are religious?
Taunton also states that this devaluation of human life is “the result of decades of an anti-Christian, godless mindset, where human beings are seen as less valuable than the state.” How is any of this related to the philosophy of modern, humanistic atheism, which has among its most cherished principles, the importance of human rights? When have Dawkins and Hitchens ever promoted a view of the state as more valuable than humanity?
That would be never.
Sure, Hitchens was a Marxist once, but as he got older he renounced that view. Even when he supported Marxism, he didn’t support the Soviet model, with its authoritarian rule and unwavering devotion to the state.
Taunton has urged his fellow Christians to pray for Chris Hitchens. I urge my fellow atheists to think for Larry Taunton, because he shows no inclination toward thinking for himself.
I was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1969 and I've lived my entire life (so far) on the Central Gulf Coast. I received my Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of South Alabama in 1992. Since 1993, I've worked as a graphic designer. I'm married, with two dogs, six cats and three mortgages. I primarily write about skepticism, free-thought, politics, atheism, separation of church and state, humor, science and my own personal experiences and issues.
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