He just has no limits.
We live in an era when public high schools and colleges have all but banned God from science classes. In these classrooms, students are taught that the whole universe, including plants and animals—and humans—arose by natural processes. Naturalism (in essence, atheism) has become the religion of the day and has become the foundation of the education system (and Western culture as a whole). The more such a philosophy permeates the culture, the more we would expect to see a sense of purposelessness and hopelessness that pervades people’s thinking. In fact, the more a culture allows the killing of the unborn, the more we will see people treating life in general as “cheap.”
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Jesus was reminding people that every person will one day die, and that they need to be ready! Those who were killed by this tower in Luke 13 didn’t know that when they arose that morning, it would be their day to die. The Lord Jesus, in saying “unless you repent,” was reminding everyone that they needed to be sure they were ready to face eternity.
This is disgusting on so many levels.
Thirty-three people dead. Thirty-three individuals, with their whole lives ahead of them, murdered. However, Ken Ham apparently thinks this is the perfect subject to use in the pursuit of supporting his ill-informed ideology. Where's his basic sense of human compassion? Did he just not think about the pain that others must be going through right now?
He's going too far when he implies that science education is somehow a catalyst for this shooting. Sure, he qualifies the paragraph by stating that he isn't saying that belief in evolution was what drove the attack -- but he definitely implies it. He slaps atheism, materialism, science, evolution, and abortion together, and suggests that schools need more religion in them. How can he so callously use this tragedy to promote his politics?
Then he ends the article with a talk about how everyone will die, and how they really should convert to Christianity. It's a classic conversion tactic -- get people while they're mourning and afraid. He supplies whoever will listen with the perfect targets to blame for society's troubles -- atheism and science. It's emotional blackmail.
I just can't believe it. I just can't. Is there anything that he won't abuse, put a misleading spin on, or outright lie about in order to further his agenda?
We live in an era when public high schools and colleges have all but banned God from science classes. In these classrooms, students are taught that the whole universe, including plants and animals—and humans—arose by natural processes. Naturalism (in essence, atheism) has become the religion of the day and has become the foundation of the education system (and Western culture as a whole). The more such a philosophy permeates the culture, the more we would expect to see a sense of purposelessness and hopelessness that pervades people’s thinking. In fact, the more a culture allows the killing of the unborn, the more we will see people treating life in general as “cheap.”
[...]
Jesus was reminding people that every person will one day die, and that they need to be ready! Those who were killed by this tower in Luke 13 didn’t know that when they arose that morning, it would be their day to die. The Lord Jesus, in saying “unless you repent,” was reminding everyone that they needed to be sure they were ready to face eternity.
This is disgusting on so many levels.
Thirty-three people dead. Thirty-three individuals, with their whole lives ahead of them, murdered. However, Ken Ham apparently thinks this is the perfect subject to use in the pursuit of supporting his ill-informed ideology. Where's his basic sense of human compassion? Did he just not think about the pain that others must be going through right now?
He's going too far when he implies that science education is somehow a catalyst for this shooting. Sure, he qualifies the paragraph by stating that he isn't saying that belief in evolution was what drove the attack -- but he definitely implies it. He slaps atheism, materialism, science, evolution, and abortion together, and suggests that schools need more religion in them. How can he so callously use this tragedy to promote his politics?
Then he ends the article with a talk about how everyone will die, and how they really should convert to Christianity. It's a classic conversion tactic -- get people while they're mourning and afraid. He supplies whoever will listen with the perfect targets to blame for society's troubles -- atheism and science. It's emotional blackmail.
I just can't believe it. I just can't. Is there anything that he won't abuse, put a misleading spin on, or outright lie about in order to further his agenda?
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