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The atheists turn ugly !

It is not news that atheists have long hated the very notion of faith, but now are starting to turn that hate directly at people of faith. Yahoo news reports on the sudden surge of atheistic/humanistic books that speak out against faith in incredibly vitriolic language. Book titles like Christopher Hitchens' God is not great: How religion poisons everything show the level of disgust atheists have and really have always had towards Christians. Hatred directed at Christians has become a big business in the book world...

The time for polite debate is over. Militant, atheist writers are making an all-out assault on religious faith and reaching the top of the best-seller list, a sign of widespread resentment over the influence of religion in the world among nonbelievers...

"There is something like a change in the Zeitgeist," Hitchens said, noting that sales of his latest book far outnumber those for his earlier work that had challenged faith. "There are a lot of people, in this country in particular, who are fed up with endless lectures by bogus clerics and endless bullying."

Facing people of faith must be scary to atheists. What is really going on is a growing fear among atheists that as Christians in large numbers are turning back to Biblical truths, and more importantly focusing on their children's education and realizing that secular teachings are not compatible with the raising of Christian children.

They need to cling to the hope that Christianity is false because the contrary is to frightening t0o contemplate: The God they have mocked and derided all their lives is alive indeed and will one day sit in judgment on them. For a person who denies God that is a scary thought indeed. Later in the same article is this excellent point:

The Rev. Douglas Wilson, senior fellow in theology at New Saint Andrews College, a Christian school in Moscow, Idaho, sees the books as a sign of secular panic. He says nonbelievers are finally realizing that, contrary to what they were taught in college, faith is not dead. Signs of believers' political and cultural might abound.

Religious challenges to teaching evolution are still having an impact, 80 years after the infamous Scopes "Monkey" trial. The dramatic growth in homeschooling and private Christian schools is raising questions about the future of public education...

"It sort of dawned on the secular establishment that they might lose here," said Wilson, who is debating Hitchens on christianitytoday.com and has written the book "Letter from a Christian Citizen" in response to Harris. "All of this is happening precisely because there's a significant force that they have to deal with."

Quite right, I especially liked that he pointed out the rise of homeschooling and Christian education to counter the flood of secular, God-denying teaching in public schools.

Dr. Mohler featured a discussion and response to Christopher Hitchens on his radio program on May 22, it is worth listening to!

"Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man! (Luke 6:22 ESV)