Atheists Right at Home at Democrat Convention

September 5, 2012 By 4 Comments

CHARLOTTE MAYOR ANTHONY FOXX AGREES WITH ATHEISTS THAT ‘REASON,’ MORE THAN GOD, IS BEST HOPE FOR HUMAN SURVIVAL ON EARTH.

Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx spoke yesterday at the Democratic National Convention, welcoming attendees to North Carolina’s largest city.

Two hours later, the Charlotte Atheists and Agnostics, a local affiliate of American Atheists, held a convention protest, at which they reiterated their demand for absolute “separation of religion and government.”

So what does that have to do with Foxx, Charlotte’s first Democrat mayor in 22 years?

Well, back in May, Foxx proclaimed “A Day of Reason,” in a bow to the city’s atheists and agnostics. And he “commend(ed) its observance to all citizens.”

Sounding very much like the speakers ranting against God yesterday at the Charlotte Atheists and Agnostics’ protest, Foxx’s proclamation declared that, “the application of reason, more than any other means, has proven to offer hope for human survival upon Earth, improving conditions within the universe, and cultivating intelligent, moral and ethical interactions among people and their environments.”

And the framers of the U.S. Constitution thought so too, Foxx added.

Why this is significant is that it provides context to what Mayor Foxx said yesterday during his remarks at the Democrat convention. “I live by the values,” he said, “this community taught me.”

And that’s not all, Foxx continued. “I have seen President Obama at work,” he said.  “And these are his values too.”

Well, I take Mayor Foxx for his word.

That both he and President Obama believe, as do atheists and agnostics, that “reason,” more than God, offers the best hope for human survival upon Earth. And that both he and President Obama believe that the nation’s founders were as godless as they.

Indeed, I think it no oversight by the Charlotte Democrats that there is no mention of   “God” whatsoever in the party’s 2012 platform (compared to 10 mentions of the Almighty in the Republican Party platform).

Just as I think it no oversight that not one Democrat leader uttered a word of disapproval when American Atheists put up a billboard, just before the Democrat Convention, which blasphemed, “CHRISTIANITY: Sadistic God; Useless Savior; 30,000+ Versions of ‘Truth;’ Promotes Hate, ‘Calls it Love.’”

No true Christ follower would be a member of a political party that refuses to acknowledge God in its platform; that embraces a hateful constituency that rants against the Lord Almighty.

“Do not be yoked together with unbelievers,” the Scripture warns. “For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common?”

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Jimmy Carter Reminds Us of His Evangelical Roots

March 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment

THE FORMER PRESIDENT HAS RELEASED A NEW STUDY BIBLE.

The late, great Bob Bartley won a Pulitzer Prize for his Wall Street Journal editorials deconstructing the hapless presidency of Jimmy Carter.

During a conversation I had with Bartley, some years after Ronald Reagan denied Carter a second term in the Oval Office, the WSJ editor told me he really had no animus toward the Democrat.

It’s just that he thought Carter would have made a much better missionary than leader of the free world.

I’m reminded of that conversation with news that the former president has just released a study Bible. It draws upon the 685 or so Sunday School lessons the Southern Baptist reckons he has taught over the years. It also includes his “personal reflections.”

With the media’s paranoia about the political influence of the evangelical community – particularly within the Republican party – it is often forgotten that Carter’s 1976 run for the White House was the impetus that got the evangelical community to take its Christian values from the church to the voting booth.

Carter, the Plains, Ga.peanut farmer who served one term as governor of the Peach Tree State, unabashedly campaigned as a “born-again Christian.” And, as he told CNN last week, he “tried to put into (his) services as president the teachings of Christ.”

Indeed, evangelicals might still be faithful to the party of Carter had it not strayed so far from the traditional values he represented when he was elected back in 1976.

Evangelicals didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party left them.

It supports abortion-on-demand. It supports repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as a union between a man and woman. It supports stem cell research involving destruction of human embryos.

It opposes sexual abstinence programs for under-age youth. It opposes public aid to faith-based social service providers. It opposes any mention of God or creation in public schools, while the exaltation of Darwin and evolution are perfectly acceptable. It opposes a crackdown on hard core pornography on the Internet.

Those are the kind of public policy positions for which the Democratic Party stands in 2012. And, in the minds of most evangelicals, they hardly represent the teachings of Christ of which Jimmy Carter spoke.

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