In the 1880s, a man by the
name of George Walser
decided that he was going to do
something very novel.
He decided that he was going to
establish a city.
Now, that's not all that novel, but what
was going to be interesting about this
particular city
was that it was going to boast of
pure atheism. You see, there weren't going to
be
any people who believed in God in the
city. He was going to found
the city (that he was going to name
Liberal,
Missouri) on the understanding or the idea
that everyone in this city is an
atheist,
that there is no God, no church,
no heaven, no hail, nothing
of a religious nature is going to be
allowed
in this particular city. Liberal,
Missouri today
has about 779 people in it.
The street names are the same
as they were when George Walser started
the city, from my understanding.
He named the streets after famous
atheists and agnostics and infidels.
You will see Darwin Avenue. You will see
Ingersoll Avenue, named after Robert
Ingersoll and Charles Darwin.
There is a Payne Street or Payne Avenue
named after Thomas Payne
who wrote a caustic diatribe against the
inspiration of the Bible.
In 1880, when he started
Liberal, Missouri there are about 300
people
in the town. And what quickly emereged was
that the town was filled
with thieves, with liars, with
drunkards, with people that
you would not want to associate with on
a regular basis.
And a man by the name of Clark Braden
went to visit
Liberal, Missouri. And Clark Braden
was
a debater. He had involved himself in
something like 120
different debates.
He had delivered over 3000
lectures or
so. He spoke on the Christian principles
as found in
the New Testament. He visited Liberal,
Missouri
and then he wrote an article describing
what was happening
in the town of Liberal, Missouri. You're
looking at a photocopy
that Eric Lyons researched and acquired
of the actual article that was posted
in 1885
in the "Saint Louis Post-Dispatch." In
this article,
Clark Braden proceeded to describe what
was happening in Liberal.
As you read it, he talks about how all of
the women
and men used bad language--used curse
words.
He said even the children cursed on a
regular basis, he said
habitually. He said there was an attitude
other
irreverence from the children to the
parents. He said
the hotels were like brothels. It was
a place that no decent person
would want to visit. And, of course, he
blamed that on the atheistic ideology
that was the foundation of the city.
They sued Clark Braden very
quickly for criminal liable and slander.
And, of course, very quickly after
the situation was apprised they realize
that Clark Braden was saying
exactly what was right and the criminal
investigation and court case
was dropped. Clark Braden was totally
exonerated
both any criminal charges. But then he
was soon
on a civil suit for $25,000
by one of the hotel owners.
And the hotel owner was trying to
sue him civilly for libel and slander.
But quickly, when he realized what Clark
Braden was going to do
and the evidence that he was going to
present that showed that the hotels were
nothing more than brothels,
the court case civilly was dropped
and the man who sued him paid all of
the court
cost. Clark Braden
had hit the nail on the head. You see,
Liberal, Missouri was
a failed experiment. Oh, it wasn't a
failed experiment
of what would happen if you actually
got a bunch of atheists together because it
showed exactly
what would happened if there were a group
of people, if there was a group of people
that got together that really truly did
believe that there was no God
and really truly believe that there
is
no standard for moral conduct. That's what
would happen. But it was a failed
experiment in that they set out
to establish a town
that was made up of upstanding, solid
citizens up the country and they could
not do it because the foundation of
their town
was terminally flawed.
That foundation being atheism. We need to
assess the idea of atheism and the
idea of Christianity
in this particular lesson. And we need to
see
just where those two ideas would take a
person
if they really acted on
their belief in those
ideas. I want you to read a quote from a
man named Bertrand
Russell. At one time, Bertrand Russell
was recognized as the foremost
agnostic and sometimes atheistic--he swapped
between the two--
thinkers of his day. He wrote
an article titled, "Why I'm Not a Christian."
But in this particular quote
I want you to see what he says
about Christianity. Now he's not a
Christian at all and would not
have a place in his heart for the
philosophy
of Christ as found in the New Testament,
but he says this. He says,
"Christianity, as soon as it conquered the
State, put an end to the gladiatorial
shows, not because they were cruel but
because they were idolatrous. The result,
however, was to diminish the
widespread education
in cruelty by which the populace of
Roman towns were degraded.
Christianity also did much to soften the
lot of slaves.
It established charity on a large scale
and inaugurated hospitals. Although the
great majority of Christians failed
lamentably in Christian charity,
the ideal remained alive in every age
inspired some notable saints. In a new
form it passed over modern liberalism,
and remains the inspiration
of much that is most hopeful
in our somber world." Mr. Russell?
Do you believe that there's evidence to
prove that Christianity is the truth? "No,
certainly not." Do you believe there's
evidence to prove that God exists and
that
He inspired the New Testament? "No,
certainly not."
Mr. Russell, do you believe that
Christianity
is the inspiration behind what is most
hopeful
in our somber world? "Yes,
yes I do." The truth is,
friends, that if you meet a person
who is applying the principles of
Christianity
to his or her life, then you will be
meeting a person
that is of such a stellar quality,
such a high character,
that it will be recognized even by those
people who don't believe in God,
that the fruits of that type of
philosophy are sweet.
But I want to deal with
some up the fruits of atheism.
What would a person who truly believed
that there is no God, if he or she
were to
act that out in his or her life. What
would they do?
Where would they go? What types of ideas
would they accept?
What had some ideas with a reject? I
want you to read this particular quote
by a man named William Provine.
He was invited to do the keynote address
at the University of Tennessee in 1998
for their
annual "Darwin Day" where they praise
Charles Darwin and his teachings
and have someone who believes in
evolution to come in. He
made this statement. He said, "Modern
science directly implies
that there are no inherent moral or
ethical
laws, no absolute guiding principles
for human society." He says, if you really
do believe
in atheism and his term there "modern science."
What he means
is atheistic evolution. If you believe in
atheistic evolution,
then that means there are no
inherently moral
laws that you are bound to follow. Do
you want to
get rid of a child that is bugging
you or that is inconveniencing you in
some way?
Fine. Do that. There's no morally
inherit law that would stop you from it.
If your society voted that
all of the kindergartners who couldn't
read by the time they finished
kindergarten needed to be disposed of,
go ahead and do that because there are
no
moral absolutes. There's nothing that
would constrain you
to do something or not to do something.
Generally speaking,
the only thing that you would use to
make a decision in that case would be
"Just vote on it,"
which we're going to see what happens
when you go that far. But he's giving you
the foundation here
and he says if you believe in the
modern scientific
atheistic evolutionary idea, then there's
not a single standard one
by which you would need to align your
life. Let's see where that goes.
If we were just to analyze the
sexual promiscuity that goes on in our
nation alone,
you would quickly see that there are all
kinds of negative effects that accrue to
our society because of the sexually
promiscuous
attitude that lots of teens and even
lots of those in their 20s and
30s and 40s
have. You would quickly learn that
every year 3 million teenagers--about
1 in 4
sexually active teenagers--acquire some
type of a
sexually transmitted disease. In 1998,
you would have seen that 56%
all girls the United States
were sexually active before they were 18,
some 72% of all the boys
in the United States were sexually
active before they were 18,
and some 19% of those who
are sexually active had four or more
consecutive partners. If I were to ask
you
where could you go to justify
sexual promiscuity? Could you go to the
New Testament
to justify the idea that you can have
sex
with whomever, whenever you would like to?
You well know, if you have read
your New Testament at all or even the
Old, that the Bible
repeatedly condemns such action as sinful.
You would read verses like Hebrews
13:4
where the Bible says,
"Marriage is honorable
among all and the bed undefiled, but
fornicators and adulterers
God will judge." You would go to
1 Corinthians 6
starting in verse 9 and following
and read that there are
certain categories of people who will
not inherit the kingdom of God
and those categories are the people who
had chosen
to do the following sins. And among
those you would read licentiousness
and fornication--
sexual promiscuity. You couldn't ever
justify
that going to the New Testament. You
would say what, "Wait just a second, Kyle.
Are you saying that all of the
sexually active teenagers or
people in the United States, that they're
atheist?" No,
that's not what we're saying at all. Don't misunderstand
the point here.
The point is not that every person who
is doing something like this
claims not to believe in God. The point is
that Christianity could never be
construed to condone
such. Is there a philosophy
that you could go to that would justify
this type of behavior? There certainly
is.
I want you to read this
quote with me. This particular statement
was given by Dr. Laurence Shaw
at a meeting of the European Society
of Human Reproduction and Embryology in
2006.
Dr. Shaw said, "Before we condemn our
teenagers for having sex behind the bike
sheds and becoming pregnant,
we should remember that this is a
natural response by these girls
to their rising fertility levels. Society
may 'tut, tut' about them, but their
actions are part of an evolutionary
process that goes back nearly two
million years."
Oh, you've got a lot of teenage girls that
are getting pregnant?
Oh, society be careful about 'tut, tutting'
about them.
Be careful about saying they're doing
something wrong. Be careful about
condemning their actions, because you know
what they're doing? They're
enacting their evolutionary urges.
They just happened to be the product of
a
mindless multi-million year chance
process
that brought them to where they are, so
it's not that they're doing something
wrong.
They're just doing what evolutionarily
evolved teenage
homo sapiens do. Whose fault is it?
It's nobody's fault and why even say
it's something that's wrong?
Because if you believe in atheistic
evolution, then there are no moral
absolutes.
And a teenage girl sleeping with
five boys before she gets married is just
as morally acceptable
as one who keeps herself pure until
marriage.
Continue with me.
A man by the name of Aldous Huxley wrote
a book called "The Brave New World." I read
it when I was about in the 9th grade
and was totally appalled by what was in
it.
In that particular book, he sets up a
society where the government
is basically in charge of the sexual
lives of the
citizens and they monitor it so
that an individual does not stay
sexually with one individual for very
long.
They encourage total sexual promiscuity.
Aldous Huxley said this: "I had motives
for not warning the world to have
meaning; and consequently
assumed it had none. For myself, is no
doubt for most of my contemporaries,
the philosophy of meaninglessness was
essentially an instrument of
liberation. The liberation we desired was
simultaneously
liberation from a certain political and
economic system and liberation from certain
system of
morality. We objected to the morality
because it interfered with our
sexual freedom."
Huxley says, "You know what? If there was a
God,
I couldn't have sex with whoever I wanted
to, whenever I wanted. So I decided
up front, that I'd just believe that
there was no God.
And then I looked around and found
evidence to
suggest to me that that would be the
case, because I didn't want anybody to
interfere with my sexual
freedom." Do you know one of the motives
behind atheistic evolution?
Oh, it's not, "I'm following the evidence
where it goes."
It's, "I don't want someone that I have to
answer to for my behavior, especially my
sexual behavior.
And if I can jettison God from my
mind,
then I can do whatever I what to do."
The problem with that thinking is,
people who jettisoned God from their mind
aren't
jettisoning God from the world.
Because it God exists--and He does--they're
like the squirrel who is hiding
his head in the hole and thinking that
a person couldn't see him. All the while
the Bible saying that God can see
everything. "The eyes of the Lord are
in every place, beholding the evil
and the good." Just not thinking about God
won't stop
God from being there, will it?
Continue with me.
I don't even like to discuss this
particular
idea, but it needs to be discussed. Rape
and evolution. Just the word
sounds bad and disgusting. Certainly not
something
that you would talk about on a normal
day to day basis.
If we were to ask the almost absurd
question:
Could you ever go to the New Testament and
find justification for this type of
activity?
You would quickly understand that such
could never
be the case. Listening to the words of
Jesus Christ,
that He would say in Matthew 7:12
"Do unto others as you would
have them do to you." You would quickly
see
that statements found in Philippians where
the apostle Paul said,
"Let everyone look out not only for his
own interest, but also for the interest
of others."
And then he said, "Let nothing be done
through selfish ambition or conceit,
but in lowliness of mind let each
esteem others
better than himself." Not to mention all
of the
verses that condemn this type of sexual
promiscuity,
the criminal behavior against your
fellow human being
would be condemned outright and
repeatedly in the New Testament.
Is there a place you could go--a
philosophy that you could find--
that would justify this type
of villainous activity against
your fellow human? Yes, there is.
A man by the name of Randy Thornhill
and his coworker Craig T. Palmer,
co-author of a book titled
"A Natural History of Rape" said,
"Evolutionary theory applies to rape, as
it does to other areas of human affairs,
on both logical and evidentiary grounds.
There's no legitimate
scientific reason not to apply
evolutionary
or ultimate hypothesis to rape." Why
does rape occur? Well, because human males
evolved
and that's one of the overlapping
things that came along with their
evolution. Read this statement that he
made,
March 16, 2001 at
a lecture that he delivered at Simon
Fraser University.
He said, "Rape is evolutionary, biological,
and natural.
Our male ancestors became ancestors in
part
because they conditionally used rape."
Why are you sitting
here watching or listening to this
particular seminar?
Well, because several years ago--maybe
multi-million
years ago--you had an ancestor that
wanted to pass on his genes. In fact,
he was--for lack of a better term--
possessed by the overriding evolutionary
desire
to pass those genes on, and it wasn't
going exactly like he wanted it to go.
And so he was forced to use force to
pass his genes on.
And that's why you even exist today
because your ancestors in the past
conditionally perpetrated this type of
villainous criminal activity
on their fellow--whatever you would want
to call them.
Fellow humans, fellow sub-humans,
etcetera. Are you starting to see where
this would go?
Any
activity, regardless of the horrible
nature,
regardless of the villainous
criminality of it, could be justified
based on an atheistic evolutionary
idea because, after all, if there's no God...
In Dostoyevsky's book "The Brothers
Karamazov"
one of his character said, "If there
is no God, all things
are permissible." And that's the truth.
How far with this go? Abortion
and evolution. It is the sad state of
affairs that in the United States of
America today
abortion is looked at as a clinical term.
The force of the overwhelming facts
is that abortion is not a clinical
procedure. It is
a criminal activity—murderous--
that involves someone that is stronger
killing a weaker human being.
Every single day in the United States of
America
about 2450 babies are murdered
and it’s tagged abortion. On September
11
when the terrorist flew two planes into
the Twin Towers,
they killed about 2450 people.
And our president got on national and
international television
and was irate and said there is not a
country in the world where we would not
hunt these people down
and make them pay for what they've done.
And that very same day, we killed in our
own country
2450 our own citizens. Now where was the
national speech?
Where was the irate tirade
that our president delivered to inform
people that we wouldn't put up with this
type of murderous activity?
It was totally absent. And it was absent the
day before and the day before that and
it's been absent for 30 years. And we've
killed
43 million of our own citizens of the United
States of America.
Now where in the world would you get an
idea that you can exterminate your own
own citizens at your leisure? Think you
get that from the Bible?
Think again. No, what you read in the
Bible is that God hates
the hands that shed innocent blood.
And what would be more innocent than the
life of an unborn child?
Where could you go? I think you know
exactly
where this is leading you. The
philosophical idea of atheism.
Barbara Burke wrote this statement in
1974.
She said, "Among some animal species,
infant killing appears to be a natural
practice.
Could it be natural for humans too, a
trait inherited
from our primate ancestors? Charles
Darwin noted in
'The Descent of Man' that infanticide has been
'probably the most important
all checks on population growth
throughout most of human history.'"
My
father and brother bought a dog. It was a
high-powered
coon hunting dog and they were going to
sell the puppies of this dog for
several hundred dollars a piece.
The dog had a litter of puppies. I
believe the first time she had 12.
She ate everyone but one. Second time she
ate them all but one.
If you know anything about pig farming,
you understand that when a pig has several
piglets, you had better get them out of
the way of any boar
pigs that are around because they will
eat them and sometimes even their own
mothers eat them.
Do you know what 10% of the
Komodo dragon’s
diet--the adult Komodo dragon consists of?
Ten percent of the adult Komodo dragon's
diet is baby komodo dragons.
Barbara Birch say, "Look. You can look out
into the natural world.
You can see that sometimes dogs eat their
puppies. Sometimes pigs eat their piglets.
Sometimes Komodo dragons eat their
baby Komodo dragons. Look, if we're nothing
more than animals
and we get our urges and evolutionary
senses from those lower animals,
why can't we just do what the animals do?
Hey, after all,
Charles Darwin said, 'There's no
fundamental difference
between man and the higher
mammals in their mental
faculties.'" What are you? If you
believe in atheistic evolution, then you're
nothing more
than a glorified monkey. And there is
nothing that inherently separates you
in value from the life of a roach. And if
someone comes in and sprays your house
to kill roaches
because they're inconvenient to you,
because you're more powerful than a roach
and you just happen to have the ability
and the force to exterminate them,
then if there's someone or some group of
people in your society
that happens to be not as convenient for
you and your strong enough, and you have
the ability to adjust exterminate them.
You think, "No, that would
never take place.
Nobody would buy into that idea."
Think again. I want you to read the words
from
Frederick Nietzsche, a philosopher that
greatly influenced Adolf Hitler.
"We believe that severity,
violence, slavery
danger in the street and in the heart,
secrecy, stoicism,
tempter's art and devilry of every kind--
that everything wicked, terrible,
tyrannical, predatory, and serpentine
in man, serves as well for the
elevation of the human species
as the opposite."
When you turn on your news, don't get
disturbed
by the fact that two individuals
waited outside of Walmart and watched as
a
23-year-old father of two
went in and picked up some milk for his
family and walked out and was shot
down mercilessly just so they could get
his truck. Don't be disturbed at that.
Hey, all that bad
it stuff? You know, in a million years
all that bad stuff is going to have
worked
for the elevation of human society. Oh,
when you turn on your television and you
see that
parents are beating their children
physically,
some of them abusing them to the point
that they are killing them, don't be
disturbed about that.
All of that works to the elevation
all the human species. We'll look back a
hundred thousand years
and a million years from now and we'll
think, "Why I'm sure glad that all those
kids got beaten
and all those people got shot and all
those women got raped and all the..."
because that has elevated human society.
Do you see how bitter
and grotesque a society would be
that actually adopted atheistic thinking?
Liberal, Missouri
imploded within just a few months
because it cannot maintain
itself. Let me show you what happens
ultimately. This man's name is one of the
most infamous
in all of history. Very few people will hear
the name of Adolf Hitler
and not understand the
dastardly, villainous,
murderous activity that he involved
himself in.
The man killed six million
Jews. Four million other blacks,
Poles, gypsies, and other people of his
own
nation that he thought were expendable
because they were
mentally not as bright as he thought
they should have been or physically
not as adept as he thought they should
have been. Sent them by
the tens of thousands to gas
chambers,
Packed tiny babies by the thousands into
lime coated train cars. Did experiments
on
them to see how fast it would
take a person to bleed to death and he
would put
them a few yards away and shoot them
and time how fast it would take them to bleed to death.
Then he would
take his prisoners and plunge them in the
freezing water to see how long it would
take
a person to die of hypothermia in
freezing water. Where in the world do you
think he would get justification for
this type of
horrible activity?
You think you would ever go to the Bible
and say, "Well, I was just following the
principles
that Jesus Christ laid out in His
mission while He was here on this earth.
I was just following the principles of
the apostle Paul, that he wrote in Romans."
Absolutely not.
In fact, Bertrand Russell has already
testified to the fact that
Christianity remains the inspiration
behind much that is most hopeful
and I certainly don't think anybody
would describe Adolf Hitler's activities
as hopeful.
Where would he go? I think you know
very well where he would go.
He says, "Thus there results the
subjection of a number of people
under the will, often only a few persons,
a subjection based simply
upon the right of the stronger, a right
which, as we see in
nature, can be regarded as the sole
conceivable right,
because it's founded on reason." He says
if you watch
in the natural world, you see the
stronger
lion killing the weaker gazelle.
If you watch in the natural world,
you see the stronger lion
fighting and defeating and sometimes
killing the weaker
lion. He says, "I'm the stronger
and I'm a product of a natural system
that leads me to found my
activity on one conceivable right.
There's only one rule here." And do you know
what he says the rule is? "If you're
bigger
and you can do it, do it." And he says, "My
justification for that is
that's how nature works." Do you know what he's
right about?
That is.
That's how nature works. He's exactly right
about that.
I believe it was Alfred Lord Tennyson who wrote
that “Nature is read in tooth and claw.”
And by that what he meant was,
in nature weaker things die.
Slower weaker gazelles are killed by
lions.
And you know what? The lion doesn't feel
any compunction at all
about devouring a gazelle that he killed.
Adolf Hitler says,
“Neither do I when I kill six million Jews
because I'm just basing my actions on
nature.”
What activity
could you not find an animal
that it does? What activity is there that
there's not an animal
out there somewhere that you could watch
and see it do it and
justify your behavior based on that? Oh, so
now are we saying
that anything that we see in nature we
can do?
Yes, that's what he saying. Do you know what
kind of society
we would let me in that adopted that
type of bestial activity?
Sure you do. You couldn't trust
anybody. The life and death rate would be
absolutely ridiculously short because
if somebody had a steak that was bigger
than somebody else's and it just so
happened that they were strong enough.
They will walk over there and say, "Give
me your steak." And if you protested and said,
"No, I'm not going to give you my steak."
All the person would have to do is say,
"I'm bigger," beat you up or kill you, and
take your steak.
And that's how would be on a day-to-day
basis.
That, my friends,
is the end result of the philosophy
of atheism. Now, the evolutionist and the
skeptic is quick to say, "Hold on just a
second.
What about all those things that have
been
done in the name of Christ that are bad
and horrible and
villainous and murderous? What about the
Spanish Inquisition?
What about the time about when
the Christians murdered their own
people in the witch hunts of Salem?
What about all of the..." And they bring up
several examples of people
claiming to follow Christ and doing
villainous, murders activities.
Now, I need to get this straight and you
need to understand it well.
Any person who
involves them self in something like the
Spanish Inquisition
or the Salem witch trials was not
acting on the principle that Jesus
Christ laid down in New Testament,
regardless
of what they said they were acting on.
You can
easily take the life of our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ
and show the self-sacrifice involved
and show the kind,
considerate, compassionate way he
interacted with people.
And you can quickly see that anybody who
involves them self
in such villainous activities as the
Spanish Inquisition, is not being
like Christ. It is a twist,
a perversion of the teachings of
Christ.
But do not misunderstand this. Atheistic,
evolutionary teaching leads
directly, logically to
a society that has no moral
standards. And even the honest
evolutionist admit that's the case.
A man by the name of William
Ernest Henley. He was a humanist.
You probably don't know his name. He
was angry at God for the things that God
allowed in his life
and thus chose to believe that there
wasn't evidence to prove that there was
a God. In fact, he thought that if there
was a God
the, God would never have allowed things
that happened to him
to happen.
You see, he got tuberculosis and his
leg was amputated. I believe he was 16.
And then
later somehow, in a freak accident, a
chain hooked around
his other leg in drug him down the train
tracks and
tuberculosis set in again. And he thought he
was going to have to amputate his other
leg.
He had a life of pain and suffering and
he said, “There can't be a God
that would allow this to happen in my
life.” Now we have a very good
biblical, philosophical answer to the
idea pain and suffering.
I don't have time to go into that right
now. But I want you
to listen to William Ernest Henley. He
wrote a poem
titled "Invictus." And here's how it goes:
"Out of the night that covers me black
as the pit,
from pole to pole I thank whatever gods
maybe
for my unconquerable soul. In the fail-
clutch of circumstance I have not winced
or cried allowed under the bludgeonings
of chance. My head is bloody,
but unbound. But on this place of wrath and
tears
lies the shade. And
yet the menace of the years finds
and shall find me
unafraid. It matters not how strait
the gate,
how charged with punishments the scroll.
I
am the master of my fate. I am the
captain
my soul." You see, William Ernest Henley wanted
to sincerely to believe that
there was nothing other than human
existence
because he hadn't lived a life
that would be conducive to an eternity
with God and Christ. Maybe you recall the
name Timothy McVeigh.
Timothy McVeigh quoted
that poem as the last words that he ever
spoke while he was alive on this earth.
Timothy McVeigh rented a truck, filled it
with hundreds of pounds of explosives, and
sent it into the government building
there in Oklahoma,
exploded it, and called
somewhere around 13 children that
happened to be
in a daycare in that building, collateral
damage. One of the greatest--and when I
say greatest what I mean is
biggest acts of domestic terrorism
that the United States had ever seen.  And
he quoted
William Ernest Henley's 'Invictus.' Why?
Because he wanted you to think
that he was not afraid of death.
"Beyond this place of wrath and tears lies but
the horror
lies the shade, and yet the menace of the
years finds and shall find me unafraid."
Do you hear that statement? He's trying
to tell you he's not afraid of death.
"But beyond this place of wrath and tears
lies but the
horror of
the shade." Do you know what is the most
bitter fruit
of atheism? It doesn't matter what you
try to present.
You are scared out of your wits
to die and see what's on the other side
of the shade. A young lady by the name of Dorthea
Day was enamored with the humanistic
philosophy of William Ernest Henley
for several months--and maybe even years--
adopted this philosophy and
started to believe it and to live
according to it.
And then she came in contact with the
teachings of Jesus Christ and
she wrote a response to Henley.
And it goes like this: "Out of the light
that dazzles me, bright as the sun from
pole to pole I thank God I know to be
for Christ
is the conqueror of my soul. Since His
the sway of circumstance I would not wince
nor cry aloud
under the rule which men call chance my
head with joy as humbly
bowed. Beyond this place of sin and
tears that life with Him! And His the aid,
despite the menace the years keeps, and
shall keep me, unafraid.
I have no fear, though strait the gate,
He cleared my punishment from the scroll.
Christ is the master of my fate.
Christ is the captain up my soul."
There is only one
place
that a person can find peace
upon leaving this life,
and it's certainly not in atheism. The
only place
is in Christ.
