 

I received the following email:
I was curious how one could get ahold of the article entitled “Contra Atheism: Don’t Coddle The Elephant” by Jeff Durbin published by American Vision on Nov 8, 2013. It seems to have vanished entirely from the internet. Thanks in advance for your help.
It had. Well, I&#39;ve resurrected it. It was written by Jeff Durbin of Apologia Studios.  — Gary DeMar
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It&#39;s one thing to have a messy house. It&#39;s quite another thing (grotesque, actually) to allow an elephant into your home to make a splendid wreck of things. Atheists seem strangely comfortable allowing elephants into their living rooms to knock their lamps over. Unfortunately, Christians have a reputation of not mentioning the beast in the room and even coddling the massive creatures because Atheists have a reputation for biting the folks from animal control. Never-you-mind: Don&#39;t coddle the elephant—it doesn’t belong there.

Our Atheist friends want us to agree with them when they tell us the grand-legend that our ancestors were (once upon a time) fish.

They want us to be committed to the idea that the universe is not subject to any personal governance, that it is unguided, and that we are all the descendants of highly-evolved societies of bacteria. Further, these products of time and chance acting on matter want us to devote ourselves to the notion that (in a godless universe) there is no good and no evil—only blind and pitiless indifference. ((Richard Dawkins, River out of Eden, 1995, pg. 131-32)) These bags of protoplasm are ferociously dogmatic and demand that other African apes stop their foolish commitments to the transcendent Creator—Who made them in the Imago Dei and sustains the universe—to come along with them and revel in their announcement that we are Orcs. We live, we die, and we are gone. We are absolutely gone when we die!

So it is written, so let it be. Thus, it is decreed, that all bi-pedal bags of brutish matter adopt this system. Here, here! (I think the elephant just knocked over their china cabinet.)

The Word coming down from the God they are warring against is clear. Yes, even Orcs understand the language of this King. He says:
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. (Romans 1:18-21, ESV)
Because of our enmity with The Light, image-bearers of God despise being men and long to be considered Orcs in the strictest sense. Ho

Contra Atheism: Don’t Coddle the Elephant

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