Washington Post Week 10
Question: What do you think of American Humanist Association’s new “Godless Holiday” campaign? The ads, displayed on transit systems in five major US cities, will say: “No God? No Problem! Be good for goodness’s sake. Humanism is the idea that you can be good without a belief in God.”
Be a Christian for Christmas sake!
Somewhere in American culture Christmas has gotten lost. My earliest memory of Christmas gone wrong was watching adults on television fight over Cabbage Patch Kids the popular doll of the 80’s. My Christmas excitement turned from asking Santa for this doll to watching my parents and grandparents go through hell and hot water to get it for me! Somewhere in my family agony, stress and pain my Christmas spirit diminished and reality of gift giving set in.
America has been allured by the big box store with the help of the media to give big gifts at so called bargain prices. A day has been set aside to shop in person (Black Friday) and if you’re still not done you can make up for it on Cyber Monday! It is amazing how some people can not show up to church on time but they can campout at Wal-Mart and other stores waiting for the 4:00 am opening. Christmas has shifted from the birth of Jesus to door busters.
If Christians no longer want to honor December 25th as the day for our saviors birth then the season is now open! It is open to whoever can come in and make a good argument against it, come up with a catchy one line slogan and tell you to be good! Remember Santa Claus use that same method telling children to be good boys and girls. Humanists are using the same premise be good with out God! So I have come up with my own one liner: For unto us a child is born! Remember this? Does it not sound familiar? Wait there is more: And he will be called wonderful counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace. This is Jesus Christ! The one who came that we might have life!
Christians please don’t just give away the holiday that is set aside for our savior birth. Humanist believes that you can be good without the belief in God. But for Christians we do good because of our belief in Jesus. In this purpose, his teachings, his examples, his promises and his love! The gift of Jesus into this world is for us! Please don’t give this gift away.
We must reclaim our belief and faith in God! We must reclaim Advent! We must reclaim our savior the Lord Jesus Christ! By the way Santa aka my mom did bring me that Cabbage patch kid baby doll, but I treasure the baby in that manger much more!
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The AHA bus ads are mere propaganda that answers to an argument that no one has made. The claim is not that atheists lack of morals but lack of moral premise, lack of ethos.
ReplyDeleteIt is also a reprinting of their ads from last year:
http://atheismisdead.blogspot.com/2008/11/another-atheist-charity-huge-success.html
And they are all a part of the atheist bus ads fracas:
http://atheismisdead.blogspot.com/2009/08/atheism-essays-particular-to-atheist.html
Yet again, during a time of the year when people are generally more inclined towards charity—peace on earth and good will towards non-gender specific personages—atheists are busily collecting hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of dollars during a time of recession not in order to help anyone in real material need but in order to purchase bill boards and bus ads whereby they seek to demonstrate, to themselves, just how clever they are—need any more be said?