Last night's Bible study at the CAK campus went well. We hit some pretty serious Greek phrases as well as handled some apologetics arguments.
I love these points brought up to question atheists. These are refutations to claims made by prominent skeptics, notably Richard dawkins. These few points are culled from a book called The Irrational Atheist by Vox Day:
1. Atheists claim that atheists make up a smaller percent of prison populations that their theists counterparts. However, surveys indicate that those who profess no religion are four times more likely to be incarcerated than their Christian counterparts. (Page 20)
2. Atheists say that religion hinders scientific progress. However, one of the most religious countries (the United States) produces 28.7% more scientific output per capita than the most atheistic one (France). (Pages 58-59)
3. They claim that Hitler was a Christian. The truth is that although Adolf Hitler made Christian-like statements when attempting to get elected to political office, once installed, he hated Christianity, and planned to replace it with a religion based upon racial eugenics. (Pages 209-214)
4. Atheists claim that only religious people start horrible acts, and that atheists would never commit atrocities. But the writer states that atheist regimes of the 20th century have committed much worse atrocities than all religious atrocities combined. In the words of Day, "...the average atheist crime against humanity is 18.3 million percent worse than the very worst depredation committed by Christians, even though atheists have had less than one-twentieth the number of opportunities with which to commit them." and "The (atheists') attempt to explain away the murderous acts of atheists shows the logical errors and double standard for those within their own camps. "(Pages 233-250)
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I ask for prayer for my back once again. The pain became so severe that I had to leave a meeting. Once again, I lay sprawled on the floor of my office, waiting for the pain to subside. This has been going on since May. The specialist has me on some nuclear-powered medicine, and wants me to try it for six more weeks, then see if I need surgery.
