Police are investigating a suspected case of "religious hate crime" following the vandalizing of the office of the Christian Party.The Christian Party launched their campaign on Thursday (12 February) with 50 buses carrying the message ‘There definitely is a God. So join the Christian Party and enjoy your life’.
Christian Party leader Revd George Hargreaves said: “I believe this is the dark side of atheistic secular fundamentalism at work – a vicious hatred all too often accompanied by a violent response to anything pertaining to God. We, however, are not cowed by this action. On the contrary, we are even more resolved to continue to fight good fight of faith.”
Police have visited the Christian Party’s offices and are treating the incident as a suspected religious hate crime.
The battle of the London bus adverts began when the British Humanist Association sponsored adverts suggesting “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”Interesting word ‘probably’ isn’t it? Try substituting other words and see how farcical their logic is. “There are probably no consequences to drink driving….” Or “There’s probably no truth in climate change…” And anyway telling people not to think about something tends to have the opposite effect doesn’t it? But it’s not a joke or a game. Richard Dawkins is deadly serious. He says rather cynically: “This campaign to put alternative slogans on London buses will make people think - and thinking is anathema to religion.”
But contrast that logic with the atheists’ atheist Woody Allen. Rather more honest than Dawkins, he admitted recently, ‘I am an atheist. I’ve never found any comfort for the misery of life, or the terror of death’.
As Matt Sieger says over on Jews for Jesus' blog, "A worry free, enjoyable life? Woody Allen has a good awareness of what life on earth without God is really like. Without God there is no logic to pain, frustration, suffering, acts of mindless cruelty, nor of why death is written into our DNA and into that of the cosmos – death remains for all, a terrifying prospect. But equally, there is for the atheist, no explanation for the existence of ‘good’ either!
No, for all their rhetoric, the New Atheists are actually wimps compared to the old atheists. When Nietzsche declared that God was dead, he understood that if there is no God, there are no morals. The New Atheists are afraid to go that far. They like to say we can have moral standards without God. But if there is a moral law, there must be a moral lawgiver. Where does our conscience come from, if not from God?"
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