Where's that toy?

I've talked about in a previous post how atheists consider themselves to be enlightened and consider Christians to be somewhere around chimpanzees on their mythical evolutionary scale. But I'm here to tell you, most of them are missing the toy in their happy meals.

The Dallas Morning News ran an article recently about Camp Quest, the atheist counterpart to church camp. "We tell him [her 5-year-old son] to ask lots of questions," says Amie Parsons. But then she says, "We're not real big into telling him what to think or what to believe." So what good does asking questions do if they don't give him any answers? I can see this: "Mommy, is that stove hot?" "Well, honey, let's see. Go over there and touch it. Does it burn? Well, then, we can conclude that it's hot." How enlightened. She says she was delighted with the question he asked at camp: "Mommy, if Jesus was a carpenter and was real, and God isn't real, does that mean Jesus built the schools and buildings?" Wow! I'd be so proud!

These are the people who find it impossible to believe that God created the world in six days. Yet they start off their camp by telling the children the Apache story of fire. Yeah, I can believe in talking foxes and coyotes so much easier than believing in a sovereign God. Another activity at the camp was staging their own UFO sightings.

If it weren't so sad, it would be really funny. Forrest Jules is 14. He says he doesn't believe in God. When he dies, he wants his body put in the ocean "so fish will turn my body into a reef -- so I can have a purpose." Can you imagine thinking your only purpose in life was to become fish food?

"Americans are more hostile toward atheists than they are towards Nazis," said Darren Sherkat, a sociologist at Southern Illinois University. I'd like to know his basis for that statement. How much research has he done? How many Americans did he interview? How did he measure their hostility? If he can't answer those questions, then perhaps he's not nearly as enlightened as he is prejudiced.

The article cites a 2003 survey by researchers at the University of Minnesota that found that atheists were less trusted than people in any other religious or racial minority in the country. Well, duh! God is the basis of our moral compass. If these people don't believe in God, they have no basis for being moral or trustworthy. It's every man for himself, because this is all there is until we serve our purpose by becoming ocean reefs.

These people can't even be honest with themselves. they said they wanted ther children to make their own decisions about what they believed or didn't believe, but Clancy Cummings then turned around and said he brought his daughter to the camp to "introduce her to his beliefs." By the way, his daughter's name is Endeavor. He may be missing the fries as well as the toy in his happy meal.

Most parents pray their children will grow up to be productive citizens -- they don't want them to turn out to be cheats, thieves, murderers, etc. Amie Parsons doesn't want her son to grow up to be the next Billy Graham. With the question he asked about Jesus building schools, I don't think she has any worries on that front.

Let's go back to Endeavor. Endeavor and her friend were talking at the camp, and the friend said she did not believe in God. She asked Endeavor whether or not she did. Endeavor said, "I don't know." Her father is thrilled with that answer. "That's as good an answer as I could ever ask for," he said. Just what every parent longs to hear from his child -- "I don't know." They are so enlightened!