New York
This is a bad time of year for atheists. So much so that they are showing signs of desperation. In the cesspool that is Uncle Sam’s capital, an unusual Christmas message began appearing last week on the side of buses and trains: ‘No god? No problem!’ Some 270 of these ads have gone up, paid for by secular groups in cities around the country. Similar signs are being placed on buses and billboards in New York, Las Vegas, Chicago, Los Angeles and other Sodom and Gomorrahs, including London, Toronto and Montreal. I say, so what? Sometimes I think the anti-Christian forces take Christ more seriously than most nominal Christians do. Atheists are jealous of the Christmas season. While we have Jesus and the Jews have the prophets, what have they got? Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and the ghastly Bono — as motley a group as those who voted for Qatar in exchange for 3 million pieces of silver.
Once upon a time religion was equated with ignorance and superstition, which eventually gave way to science, fact and reason. Secular élites banged the drum loudly, exhorting us to acknowledge that the world was better off without Christ and God. Unfortunately, it was the other way round. At the turn of the millennium it was pretty hard not to notice that the 20th century, when these buggers more or less prevailed among the pseudo-élites who rule over us, had been the worst one yet for death and destruction and out-and-out state murder. Denouncing God and in turn Jesus has turned us into savages, which has in turn led to a spiritual quest by most decent people of the Western world.
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