alex.cvitanovic

This arti­cle is hilar­i­ous. Appar­ently God has a sense of humor after all! 

http://tinyurl.com/b85f4y [Foxnews.com]

A bit of back­ground on this: Mid last year arti­cles started pop­ping up on news and social net­work­ing sites (such as digg) about athe­ist groups spend­ing vast sums of money pro­mot­ing that “There is prob­a­bly no God. Now stop wor­ry­ing and enjoy your life”. Sup­port­ers of the adver­tis­ing cam­paign stat­ing that every­one has a right to free­dom of speech, and that God has had his mes­sages plas­tered all over front-lawn signs of churches for centuries. 

Each cam­paign can eas­ily cost in excess of $250000, and some peo­ple go as far as stip­u­lat­ing that these large amounts of money are being spent, with almost no change in mind­set or reli­gious stance. These athe­ist pro­mot­ing cam­paigns can be seen across the world from Lon­don to Amer­ica, I’m even told here in Syd­ney. In lon­don the chris­t­ian polit­i­cal party is even jump­ing on the band­wagon, with signs soon to be rented say­ing “There is a God. BELIEVE. Don’t worry and enjoy your life.”  Sup­port­ers will then be able to send a sms cost­ing 2 euros (approx $3.94AU) stat­ing the word “amen”, with the money going toward the sup­port of the chris­t­ian polit­i­cal party.

Per­son­ally, these cam­paigns dont worry me too much. I mean, they’re sim­i­lar to the polit­i­cal adver­tis­ing and cam­paign­ing you see out­side the elec­toral poll booths dur­ing elec­tion time. I’ve made my mind up well before I get to the vot­ing booth, and no amount of polit­i­cal scare tac­tics slammed across thou­sands of plas­tic signs is going to make me change my mind. 

These cam­paigns have the athe­ists sup­port­ing the mes­sages, the chris­tians oppos­ing the mes­sages, and the rest of the world say­ing “I couldn’t really care less, to be honest”.

We, as the Body of Christ, should prob­a­bly be ask­ing our­selves “Why do they think believ­ing in God means they cant enjoy their lives?” and be cam­paign­ing against that, instead…

Check out the fol­low­ing links for more info:

http://tinyurl.com/b862ts [the Wash­ing­ton post]

http://tinyurl.com/dg9v8v [the daily 49er]

(thanks to Eric Briseno for the link - http://tinyurl.com/b2e3kq [facebook] )

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