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Here You Go! Thoughts from Greg Howell
Monday, 3 December 2007
Irony Abounds

One time I pulled a Bible from a shelf in the library.  Inside the front cover, someone had stamped a disclaimer from an Atheists Society of some sort.  I wish I could recall the exact wording (perhaps I should head to the local library), but it was a WARNING! about the dangers of the Bible to thinking people.   The same imprint appeared in all the Bibles in that library.

Personally, I find it's the non-thinking people who use the Bible that cause more problems, but that's just my observation.

Christian Century reported an item from a publication or news service called Third Way in which a person whose parents were atheists finds validity in Christian teachings and ethics.  While he claims he could not become a person of faith, he made sure his own children had a Christian education.

Niall Ferguson, the atheist in question, said, "If I had to choose an ethical system to make generally available, I would choose the teachings of Christ.  There's no superior atheistic alternative if you want to make a society behave well."

Again, while we must acknowledge that many, many Bible-reading/believing Christians don't behave so well, I find it interesting that an atheist would refer to Jesus as "Christ."

Hmmm.  Is it perhaps an unconscious confession of faith?

 


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