Evangelizing the Atheists

[Steve Belttari]

     The U.S. Supreme Court defines atheism as a religion.  There is various criteria that the court uses to evaluate what constitutes a religion.  One of the criteria is the devotional aspect of a religion.  In the past, the court decided that atheism is indeed a religion, because of the obvious devotion of its adherents.  So if we desire to evangelize the atheists, I think that we have to look at them as being members of another religion.  When Christian missionaries go into other lands, one of the things that they have to deal with is the established religious practices of its people.  In our own land,  It is the established state religion of atheism:  The public school system.  This is the stronghold that we should focus on if we want to evangelize atheists.  Not an easy thing to do of course.  Even with proven incompetence, most people still don't see compulsory public education as being an evil institution.  The real reason that they don't see it this way, is because it comes from us, the Church.  It was Protestant reformers like Martin Luther and John Calvin who advocated using the coercive apparatus of the state to indoctrinate children to be Christians.  The Lord will not use the state to indoctrinate children to be His disciples, but Satan will use it to dupe people.  So we must "cast down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ".    

[Steve Belttari]

I am an anti-federalist, so whether Barack Obama was born in the U.S. or not doesn't really mean to much to me. From what I understand, Philip Berg's case is based upon Barack never actually providing a legit. birth certificate. Of course, he never was required to, he only had to sign an affidavit attesting that he was born in the U.S. Sounds pretty elitist to me, how come I have to provide every piece of identification imaginable
to do any thing these days.
As far as what you said about the Apostle Paul knowing that Jesus Christ was going to return in his lifetime, I do not read any scripture that says that he did. Jesus said that no man knows the day or hour of His return, and I think Paul was a follower of Jesus Christ. What Paul wrote by inspiration of the Holy Spirit in 2 Thes 2 seems to indicate that he probably didn't think it was going to happen in his lifetime. Harris Tweed said:

Steve Belttari said:

Harris,
Maybe the next discussion that I start will be on 9/11, then we can talk about conspiracy theories. In light of the numerous inconsistencies in the official government conspiracy, there is an alternate conspiracy theory that is more likely the truth.

It doesn't come as a surprise to me that you are a truther. Let me guess, you also think Obama was born in Kenya too.