I recently looked at a court TV show about Madeline O'Hare, the one who supposedly "took prayer out of school", and I couldn’t help but feel as though she could have been saved. Our approach as Christians sometimes can be so against our beliefs and begin to turn us into monsters. I looked at the way supposed Christians reacted towards her because of her beliefs, and yet none tried to understand why she was so against God, and those who did, asked it in a reactionary state of anger. And on her disappearance many said "she deserved to die", "She gets what she deserved" and so many had bitter resentment towards her. But I feel as though God was saddened about her state of being and wanted to use us to heal that pain that was inside of her, that bitterness she felt for God only grew when our anger arose. I feel as though as Christians we love getting angry at people who openly hate God, and rather than find out why they feel the way they do, and at least know what is troubling them, we think we can be God's avengers. One statement I can say in admiration is that she at least was cold. She stuck by her belief. Sadly the only time we as Christians chose to is when our beliefs are threatened. If our faith in God was so strong and practiced what we preached, do we believe one atheist woman could shake us down and could change the course of history forever? If those prayers in school where genuine and not routine repetitions do we believe they would disappear so quickly? Our lukewarm state of being angers God and people's hate of God saddens Him. I urge all of us to take a minute and evaluate our lives and follow Christ's teachings. Learn the greatest commandment Christ left us “love one another”. Love isn’t always comfortable and as frilly as we think, it is sometimes convicting. Anyways that is another blog topic I'll delve into later. But I can’t help but feel as though she could be saved. If we could have found out why, maybe many more atheists could have been brought closer to God.
Friday, May 20, 2005
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Perhaps those who most strongly advocate atheism do it not out of a true non-belief in Him but from resistance to a call He may have upon their life. It's human nature to deny that which we don't want to face up to. I have read many stories of atheists who set out to disprove God and become saved.
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