It’s good to experience awe.
Many things leave me awestruck.
A sunrise.
A thunderstorm.
The ocean.
The stars.
The incomprehensibility of godless thought.
Really!
Stephen Hawking passed away this week.
Nothing makes a better case for Christian living than the atheist reaction to death.
Consider this:
Brilliant!
I wouldn’t have thought to eulogize Hawking by contradicting him!
This level of obliviousness can only be achieved by the heathen.
Hawking: “There is no afterlife.”
Atheist: “Then enjoy the stars!”
If Hawking said he was going to the mountains, they’d tell him to, “Enjoy the beach!”
These are the same folks who laugh at you for praying during tragedies.
These are the folks that mock the idea of Heaven.
Twas an atheist that posted the empty wheelchair at the top of this page.
I’ve asked this question before but it is appropriate to ask again:
What is the upside of godlessness?
I don’t expect the heathen to answer me.
They never answer me.
From where I’m standing, atheism appears to have no benefits whatsoever.
Aside from a false sense of intellectual superiority, what else does godlessness offer?
Stephen Hawking passed away and you’ve got nothing to say!
Death starts most people thinking.
Don’t waste the opportunity for some self-examination.
Quit clinging to atheism.
It’s obvious you’ve got bigger ideas about reality.
9 Responses
Good post.
Something I really appreciate about both Hawkings and Nietzsche, these were guys so relentlessly pursued by God, it left me a bit awestruck myself. Talk about the Hound of Heaven in hot pursuit! God was just so present, knocking on the door every single day, all while Hawkings body is being crushed and Nietzsche eventually goes insane. Read some biographies of these guys with some spiritual eyes and it’s just incredible how persistent God is. At least it really opened my eyes to the fact that God loves us, pursues us fiercely, that he’s not letting anybody fall through the cracks without a fight.
these people are incapable of seeing, or at least admitting, their own bias and contradictions. We have been made to worship. When you reject the creator, you worship the creation. Men like hawkings, darwin or obama start to take-on a status of god-like infallibility. Instead of recognizing flaws in their world view, people have to hide and pretend these flaws don’t exist to shield themselves from the possibility that they are accountable to a Holy God. I truly believe that if Donald Trump read speeches from Obama, people would say that the words are bigoted and triggering; however, those same words were worthy of a noble peace prize when uttered by the god-king Barak Obama.
As they say, self-made men who worshiped their creator.
You’re pointing out why atheists are so poor at being good unbelievers these days. At least coherent atheists like Nietzsche were consistent. He might’ve shown a picture of a pile of dirt and said something like, “You’re dead. All enjoyment of anything has ceased. You are nothing more than dust now…the end.” Or, something quite disturbing like that. I’m sure he would’ve offended most of the feely-minded and confused atheists of today. But you got to love someone who actually gets it. 🙂
Nietzsche spent the remainder of his life in an asylum. He was completely unhinged. What are your thoughts on that?
Nietzsche was brilliant but obviously tormented. I’m not agreeing with him. He was still a godless atheist, but at least he understood what divorcing himself from God actually meant, unlike many incoherent atheists today.
Thank you. I saw this picture posted so many times I finally had to jump in and ask someone why they thought it was so cool when it contradicted what the man himself believed. We ended up having a rather good conversation. Some saying that it brought them hope that on his death bed he finally saw the light and accepted Christ. Okay. I guess there is that. Others simply took it to mean that he dedicated his life to the stars. My reply; then it would still show him bound to the body and the wheel chair. They didn’t like that. I delicately put that he believed that when he died his body would go in the ground and that would be it. I didn’t take it the next step as I was tempted to and say that is what the picture should depict. If you want to honor the man, you have to honor his beliefs. To place a false belief upon him that he is now healed and walking among the stars doesn’t honor him. I was told when I asked about it I was putting my opinion onto him. How was I putting my opinion onto him by pointing out the mans own beliefs would state he wouldn’t be healed and he wouldn’t be walking among the stars? He’d be dead and buried and that would be the end of it according to the man himself. I notice the post is no longer there. Which is sad because there was some really good dialogue going on. But so many say that they taught him so much and he is the reason they remain an atheist, yet they turn around and have him healed and entering glory when he died. I guess it would be wrong for us to draw a picture based on his belief. A man suffering in a lake of fire with a huge chasm separating him from heaven that cannot be crossed. (Luke 16:23)
Always take screenshots when good conversations are happening!
Posts where somebody makes a valid point have a way of disappearing… 😉
(It’s sad people can’t say, “Thanks for the perspective; I’ll give it some more thought…” Instead, they try to destroy the evidence of their wrongness. But–it happens all the time.)
Apparently Ray Comfort got in strife for reiterating the pointlessness of life in reference to Hawking’s death. Funny how atheists get up in arms when, you know, you look at life like an atheist.