{"id":13690,"date":"2016-03-27T05:58:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T10:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=13690"},"modified":"2016-03-27T05:58:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T10:58:58","slug":"happy-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/27\/happy-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Easter!"},"content":{"rendered":"

From my Family to Yours, I hope all My readers and subscribers Have a Happy Easter!<\/p>\n

And Remember: The World May Look Dark and Hopeless now, but despite all of that, Jesus, Our King, Has Risen, He Has Conquered Death, Hell and the Grave! and because of that fact alone, All Believers Can Have Hope!!<\/p>\n

The Lion of the Tribe of Judah HAS Prevailed!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;\u00a0<\/span><\/span>And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Philippians 2: 10-11<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\"the-very-first-easter\"<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s nearly Easter, and the atheists, God bless them, are writing bestselling books to prove the good Lord\u2019s nonexistence. Truly, they have their reward.<\/p>\n

One of the most famous of them, a British professor named Richard Dawkins, says atheists are generally smarter than Christians. I wouldn\u2019t doubt it.<\/p>\n

After all, St. Paul says God has chosen the foolish people of this world to confound the wise. I don\u2019t know how many times some simple soul has put me to shame when I thought I was being clever. Oops! Maybe polished professors never have this experience.<\/p>\n

Of course, atheists are clever! People who spend a lot of time justifying themselves generally are. If you devote your waking hours to seeking reasons not to believe, you\u2019ll find plenty of them. Darwin sold a lot of books to clever people like that.<\/p>\n

Then there is the argument from comparative religion. Religions are a lot alike, they can\u2019t all be true, so isn\u2019t it probable that they are all false? By that kind of reasoning, you can prove not only that we don\u2019t know who wrote Hamlet, but that it was never written at all.<\/p>\n

Was Jesus just like a lot of other religious leaders? Such as? Do other religions have prayers like the Our Father? Did the ancient Greeks ask Zeus to \u201cforgive us as we forgive others\u201d? Did the Aztecs pray like that? How many other religions command their votaries to rejoice, be of good cheer, have no fear? (\u201cTrust in Poseidon\u201d?)<\/p>\n

\"Jesus\"<\/p>\n

And many other religious figures, we are told, have performed miracles every bit as impressive as those attributed to Jesus. Really? Did they cure blind men and cripples while assuring them that their sins were forgiven?<\/p>\n

And did they, even after they had died (and risen again, it goes without saying), make converts who would die for what they had taught? Did any of them ever give a speech like the Sermon on the Mount? If so, where can I find a copy?<\/p>\n

For that matter, did any of these impressive religious teachers, who seem to have been very numerous, match Jesus in what has been called his \u201ccommand of the moment,\u201d making memorable retorts, still quoted centuries later, to enemies trying to trap them with trick questions? Have any of their reported ad libs endured as permanent moral teachings, like \u201cWhoever among you is without sin, let him cast the first stone\u201d?<\/p>\n

Come to think of it, the atheists could strengthen their case somewhat by producing the prayers of other religions to show how much they resemble, or even surpass, Christian prayers. Why don\u2019t they? Just asking. But I have my suspicions.<\/p>\n

Just as President Bush says Islam is a \u201creligion of peace\u201d because he assumes that all religions are pretty much alike (and like Christianity) by definition, so the atheists seem to assume that all religions share the features of Christianity they detest. I wish they would go all out and really press the analogies \u2014 honestly, not selectively.<\/p>\n

\"arose\"<\/p>\n

When you point to the rather horrid regimes run by atheists in the twentieth century, you can count on the atheists to disown them, on the pretext that men like Stalin were the \u201cwrong\u201d sort of atheists because they were just as \u201cdogmatic\u201d as Christians. With people who argue this way, you\u2019d better cut the deck before letting them deal the cards. They\u2019re saying that empirical evidence is inadmissible \u2014 except when they want to use it.<\/p>\n

If Hitler and Stalin believed in Darwinism, that doesn\u2019t count against Darwinism, because they \u201cabused\u201d it. You get the impression that Darwinism can be safely applied only by people who practice Christian morality \u2014 but of course, that such people are mostly atheists. In other words, atheists make better Christians than Christians do. Well, at least, they are smarter.<\/p>\n

How can God be both good and omnipotent, when there is so much evil in the world? I can\u2019t answer this one, and it has tormented believers so deeply that the Scriptures themselves ask it many times. It\u2019s known as the Problem of Evil. I can say only that it\u2019s trumped by the real mystery, the Problem of Good.<\/p>\n

This was posed, in a way, by a woman whose name I forget: \u201cIf there is no God, who do we thank?\u201d Only a woman would think of that. And by the way, if there is no God, who do we thank for creating woman?<\/p>\n

Read the Original Article at LEW Rockwell<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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