Waxing on High Stakes Gambling

The Associated Press reported that ads proclaiming, "Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness' sake," will appear on Washington, D.C., buses starting next week and running through December. The American Humanist Association unveiled the provocative $40,000 holiday ad campaign Tuesday.

I am not offended by these efforts, rather I am amazed at the reasoning...

"We are trying to reach our audience, and sometimes in order to reach an audience, everybody has to hear you," said Fred Edwords, spokesman for the humanist group. "Our reason for doing it during the holidays is there are an awful lot of agnostics, atheists and other types of non-theists who feel a little alone during the holidays because of its association with traditional religion."

Alone? Since when were unbelievers left out of holiday celebrations? Our culture offers much more secular references in holiday celebrations than the original meaning of these holidays anyway! What exactly should holidays like Christmas or Hanakkuh be associated with?

Edwords said the purpose isn't to argue that God doesn't exist or change minds about a deity, although "we are trying to plant a seed of rational thought and critical thinking and questioning in people's minds."

OK, this is about rational thought...I am all for rational thought. Maybe the holiday celebrations are pricking consciences of the atheists and causing them to actually do some critical thinking about God. Why else would they campaign so hard against faith in God! Who are they trying to convince?

Last month, the British Humanist Association caused a ruckus announcing a similar campaign on London buses with the message: "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life."

Are you willing to gamble with your eternal destiny on a probability? Is that rational and critical thinking? Sounds like some seriously high stakes gambling to me! By the way: MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

John 3:16-21

16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. 20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. 21 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”