[To me, this is the best news imaginable. Even though they say there is an increase in paganism, I see no problem with that… because it means people are thinking in a spiritual way and are changing. I think the most important fact is that people are searching their hearts for the truth – and even intellectuals are finally concluding that athiesm cannot be the truth.

Some years ago, when I was interviewed by Art Bell himself, I made a statement about the “athiest scientists”… and Art Bell expressed shock and tried to paper over what I had said. He said in effect, I was “spitting out” the phrase athiest. Indeed I was. Isn’t is amazing to see that in the meantime… those people have actually been changing!?

I also mentioned, in my writings, that Leonard Euler, the greatest mathematical genius of all time, and the originator of most modern mathematics said that the universe is too complicated for it to be accounted for by accident. Euler was an ardent Christian and read the Bible to his family every day.

I agree with Eule…. and it is excellent to see how many intellectuals are now coming around to seeing this fact. Our amazing science is showing us… that things are too unbelievably complex for any of this to have been caused by an accident. Maybe 100, or 150 years ago, when fools like Marx roamed around… and the world was more backward… it may have appeared (if you were an idiot!) that all life could be accounted for by freakish accidents of probability. But as we acquire telescopes, and atomic microscopes… and we delve into chemisty, biology and the physical sciences… so we see that all this is so unbelievably complex that no accident could ever account for any of this.

Whether God is a Christian or a Jew, or all of the above… who knows… But there can be no question in my mind that extreme intelligence is behind the workings of our universe.

All I would like to see… in the end… is the destruction of Communism and the wiping out of socialism. These insane philosophies are also the products of athiesm.

I am so happy to see this move away from athiesm. About 10 years ago, Jeff Nyquist and I had a discussion about the future of the world. Jeff Nyquist expressed the view, that a World War, would result in a United States which would be so conservative that it would be akin to the far right of today. I pondered this… and I agree. I think it is quite possible for a World War to result in a future world which would be EXTREMELY RIGHT WING by today’s standards. In the USA, and around the world, one sees, a grass roots fledgling Right Wing rising everywhere. It is born of religion and also from people who realise that there are racial differences, etc. In my view, Apartheid itself, cannot die forever because a lot of the concepts inside it were based on valid historical and scientific facts.

The ANC in South Africa on the other hand… could in the end… just be a flash in the pan… Its future is by no means assured. If global trends continue… the future could be very different to what the Liberals and the far left have been working for. It appears to me there is a backlash against many of these leftwing concepts.

Look at the Soviet Union. They tried to take women and turn them into men. Have you met any Russian women in the last few years? You’ll find that almost without exception, they are very feminine and enjoy being feminine.

The Soviet Union tried to wipe out the Jewish culture. Jews were sent to Siberia for passing their culture on to their children. And yet… the Jewish culture did not die. Indeed, the Russians are only to happy to export the pesky Jews out of their country… because they just could not break their will. Those Jews now live in Israel, and they hate Russia with a passion!!

If the viciousness of the Soviet Union, could not conquer human nature… in women, or in Jews… then it may show that in the end it will fail.

Socialism is illogical. Its like spitting into the wind. The Communists, and Athiests spat into the wind… They are destined to fail – completely.

All I would like to see one day… and I certainly hope I live to see this… is bulldozers burying the communists we kill in the next war in mass graves. Then I will know that we finally defeated these people who went against every aspect of human nature and logic. They flaunted and ignored every lesson history had taught us over thousands of years. I would like to see these people who spat in the face of God and who wanted to turn the world into athiest barbarians – dead. When they are dead and gone, the world will be a much more peaceful place, and the rest of us can progress forward happily. Jan]

By Uwe Siemon-Netto
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
Thursday, March 3, 2005

Gurat, France “ There seems to be a growing consensus around the globe that godlessness is in trouble.

“Atheism as a theoretical position is in decline worldwide,” Munich theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg told United Press International Tuesday.

His Oxford colleague Alister McGrath agrees. Atheism’s “future seems increasingly to lie in the private beliefs of individuals rather than in the great public domain it once regarded as its habitat,” he wrote in the U.S. magazine, Christianity Today.

Two developments are plaguing atheism these days. One is that it appears to be losing its scientific underpinnings. The other is the historical experience of hundreds of millions of people worldwide that atheists are in no position to claim the moral high ground.

Writes Turkish philosopher Harun Yahya, “Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as ‘the ways of reason and science,’ is proving to be mere irrationality and ignorance.”

As British philosopher Anthony Flew, once as hard-nosed a humanist as any, mused when turning his back on his former belief: It is, for example, impossible for evolution to account for the fact than one single cell can carry more data than all the volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica put together.

Flew still does not accept the God of the Bible. But he has embraced the intelligent design concept of scholars such as William Dembski who only four years ago claimed to have been mobbed by pro-evolutionist colleagues at “ of all places “ Baylor University, a highly respected Southern Baptist institution in Waco, Tex.

The stunning desertion of a former intellectual ambassador of secular humanism to the belief in some form of intelligence behind the design of the universe makes Yahya’s prediction sound probable: “The time is fast approaching when many people who are living in ignorance with no knowledge of their Creator will be graced by faith in the impending post-atheist world.”

A few years ago, European scientists sniggered when studies in the United States “ for example, at Harvard and Duke universities “ showed a correlation between faith, prayer and recovery from illness. Now 1,200 studies at research centers around the world have come to similar conclusions, according to “Psychologie Heute,” a German journal, citing, for example, the marked improvement of multiple sclerosis patients in Germany’s Ruhr District due to “spiritual resources.”

Atheism’s other Achilles heel are the acts on inhumanity and lunacy committed in its name. As McGrath relates in Christianity Today: “With time (atheism) turned out to have just as many frauds, psychopaths, and careerists as religion does. … With Stalin and Madalyn Murray O’Hair, atheism seems to have ended up mimicking the vices of the Spanish Inquisition and the worst televangelists, respectively.”

John Updike’s observation, “Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been is drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position,” appears to become common currency throughout much of the West. The Rev. Paul M. Zulehner, dean of Vienna University’s divinity school and one of the world’s most distinguished sociologists of religion, told UPI Tuesday: “True atheists in Europe have become an infinitesimally small group. There are not enough of them to be used for sociological research.”

The only exceptions to this rule, Zulehner said, are the former East Germany and the Czech Republic, where, as the saying goes, de-Christianization has been the only proven success of these regions’ former communist rulers.

Zulehner cautions, however, that in the rest of Europe re-Christianization is by no means occurring. “What we are observing instead is a re-paganization,” he went on, and this worries Christian theologians such as Munich’s Pannenberg and the Rev. Gerald McDermott, an Episcopal priest and professor of religion and philosophy at Roanoke College in Salem, Va.

For although in every major European city except Paris spirituality is booming, according to Zulehner, this only proves the emergence of a diffuse belief system, Pannenberg said, but not the revitalization of traditional Christian religious faith.

Observing a similar phenomenon in the United States, McDermott stated that the “rise of all sorts of paganism is creating a false spirituality that proves to be a more dangerous rival to the Christian faith than atheism.”

After all, a Satanist is also “spiritual.”

Pannenberg, a Lutheran, praised the Roman Catholic Church for handling this peril more wisely than many of his fellow Protestants. “The Catholics stick to the central message of Christianity without making any concessions in the ethical realm,” he said, referring to issues such as same-sex “marriages” and abortion.

In a similar vain, Zulehner, a Catholic, sees Christianity’s greatest opportunity when its message addresses two seemingly irreconcilable quests of contemporary humanity – the quest for freedom and truth. “Christianity alone affirms that truth and God’s dependability are inseparable properties to which freedom is linked.”

As for the “peril of spirituality,” Zulehner sounded quite sanguine. He concluded from his research that in the long run the survival of worldviews should be expected to follow this lineup:

“The great world religions are best placed,” he said. As a distant second he sees the diffuse forms of spirituality. Atheism, he insisted, will come in at the tail end.

Copyright (194)Â 2005 East West Services, Inc.

Source: World Tribune
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