There Are No Atheists in Fox
Holes
It
seems that in our “enlightened” society it is “cool” to call yourself an
atheist. The atheist lobby in this
country has been emboldened in the past few years by several court cases that
agreed with them about the erecting of religious symbols of any of the major
religions on public property. Let’s
make sure we understand the constitutional situation here, because it is not
what the atheists say it is. The
constitution says this about religion; “Congress shall make no laws respecting
the establishment of religion or the free exercise thereof.” That’s it.
Nothing else.
There is nothing in that statement about “separation of church and
state.” There is nothing in that
statement about church infringing on government. It is all about prohibiting the government
from infringing on the church.
Now,
I am a believer in separation of church and state, but not the way it is being
perverted in today’s litigious society.
Separation of church and state has never meant separation of churchmen
and state. That is why priests,
preachers, Imams and rabbis can run for office, even the presidency. However, the fact that they can is no reason
they should. When JFK was running as the
first Catholic with a chance to be elected, people said of him that he had a
sworn loyalty to a foreign government (The Vatican) and thus would not be a fit
president. Thank the Lord he proved
those nuts wrong.
My
own version of separation of church and state means, at least to me, that the
state should never be promoted in the church and the church should never be
infringed upon by the state. I don’t
believe for one minute that erecting a Menorah or a cross on a public square at
Christmas time in any way could be taken as the state promoting religion, but
most judges today do not have the cajones to say that. These gutless wonders find it so much easier
just to tell Christmas and Hanukkah revelers to take a flying leap off a nearby
cliff. These judges use each other’s
rulings as precedents, which can quickly become sacred. The Supreme Court has been little help in
this. They just simply choose to ignore
lower court rulings on the subject and refuse to take the cases. In other words, the atheists win because of
sloppy judges, not because they are right.
But, they have been emboldened.
I
have known a few atheists. Their
greatest fear is that one of their kids will get religious. When Ms. O’hair’s son became a Christian she
disowned him and did everything she could to make him appear less than capable
of making such a weighty decision.
One
thing I remember when I visited a known atheist in our community during his
hospital stay was how he kept repeating over and over again, “Oh, it hurts so
bad. Please God make it stop.” There it is.
A prayer to a god he did not believe existed. When I visited him again after he was
released from the hospital I asked him if he remembered how much he hurt. He said he did. I said, “Do you remember what you kept saying
over and over again? He said he did
not. I told him he kept saying, “God,
please make it stop hurting.”
“Did
I say that?” he asked. When told he did
he then said, “Well, preacher, you know that’s just a figure of speech. It didn’t mean anything.” When I told him that would be a poor thing to
say to his eternal judge when he faced him in death, he said, “Well, now,
preacher…if there is no God, there is no judge.” All the while his sweet wife was sitting in
the corner weeping for her husband. A
few weeks later I was called to their home where I was told, “Jim accepted
Christ last night.” His burdened wife
had led him to the Lord. I saw a whole
different man sitting before me.
Maybe something about that non-existent judge got his attention.