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Atheist billboards in Sioux City, South Dakota.
Pastor Jeff Hayes of Faith Temple Church responded to 20 atheist-themed billboards in his city that display messages such as “God didn’t create man” and “prayer doesn’t work,” by telling local news station KOTA-TV that atheists who criticize religion might just be “pre-Christian people” who need prayer to experience a personal spiritual awakening.
“I think it’s good for Christians to have a reaction and we can be negative toward the Free Thinkers but I think we should just pray for them and just believe that, wow if there is a God, is He big enough to reveal Himself to them,” Hayes added.
“Pre-Christian”. Is this like “Pre-Owned” and “Pre-Born”?
Surely a lot (if not most) of them are post-Christian!
Richardelguru, yep! That was my first thought -- “I’m post-Christian”. Not all atheists are, of course, but a whole lot of them are. It’s not terribly surprising this wasn’t thought all the way through.
Har, har, what an optimist. The only thing that is revealed is their bigotry.
1) They don’t need the billboards to be negative towards Free Thinkers (or anyone else for that matter).
2) Is he admitting that he has doubts about the existence of a god (“wow if there is a [g]od”)?
3) Go ahead and pray for me all you want. It won’t change my attitude towards your god.
4) How “big” his god is doesn’t matter, only how real he is. And he doesn’t exhibit any traits that would make him “real” to me.
Pre-xian. Jewish. Tell me how this isn’t disguised antisemitism.