On Facebook James ‘the Sci-Fi Dude’ McGrath makes mention of a report about Hector Avalos from the newspaper of the Iowa college where Avalos is employed- making a living off of the Bible while simultaneously calling for its complete abandonment (which is rather like urging the sawing off of a limb on which you are sitting). A better title for the essay than ‘an unlikely atheist teaches others’ would be ‘the blind leads the blind’.
McCheweyBacka also points (on Facebook) to a much more important and interesting report from CNN about the invitation offered Iraq’s Christians by the Kurds – ‘Come on up here!‘
Iraqi Christians under siege by Islamic militants are welcome in the country’s north, a Kurdish leader said Thursday, after a string of attacks that have killed dozens of the faith. “I want to let them know that the Kurdistan Region is open to them. If they want to come, we will protect them and provide them with all services,” said Massoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan regional government. “We are extremely sorry for the crimes they have been subjected to and we condemn these criminal acts, they are innocent people and a precious part of this nation.”
That’s the sighted leading the sighted to peace. Thank God for people like the Kurds. They’re doing more for Iraq’s Christians than the United States is.
I mention these two reports together for a couple of reasons: 1) they’re both posted by McGrath on Facebook (that’s the lesser reason) and; 2) on the one hand the first demonstrates the absurdity of atheism and the second demonstrates humanity at its best. For while Avalos and the angry atheists spend their lives attempting to destroy (and make no mistake, their entire program is destruction. They construct nothing, they offer nothing, they propose nothing; their entire hope is the destruction of something which they hate), the Kurds offer refuge to the persecuted. Avalos and the Angry Atheists persecute; and the Kurds protect the persecuted. These two stories are opposite sides of the same coin. The first, incarnate evil bent on chaos, and the second chaos brought under control by means of security and peace.
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Frankly, the Kurds understand discrimination and violence, which has made them more understanding than others when that same violence and discrimination is perpetuated against a 3rd party.