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Oh, my, no…humans didn’t invent us at all…We evolved from plastic, wires, and little microthingers.

 

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The Atheist Agenda?

Is the New York Times fueling hostility toward religion. Sean Hannity takes a look at this viewpoint.

 

Hugh Hewitt vs Sam Harris

Christian and radio host Hugh Hewitt debates atheist Sam Harris.

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Winter Blunderland

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Religious Hostility on Display at U.S. Capitol

Today, the U.S. Capitol unveiled what one congressman has called a “$600 million godless pit,” a palatial underground visitors’ center which is at the heart of an ongoing debate over the place of America’s religious heritage in the nation’s capital. Not only does the basement of the House and Senate’s home have new galleries, theaters, and gift shops, but, as 108 congressmen rightly argue, it should also include an honest and complete portrayal of America’s religious roots.

Initially, planners had scrubbed references to “In God We Trust,” the Pledge of Allegiance, and the Founders’ faith. The Architect of the Capitol, who is responsible for the renovations, came under fire from the building’s own residents, the U.S. Congress, for omitting such basic references to the Almighty. Although some of the concerns were addressed before the center opened this afternoon, dozens of leaders and organizations like FRC are still troubled by the politically correct nature of the exhibits, which are historically incorrect.

Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.) and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) have been the most vocal opponents of this spiritual “whitewashing” of America’s most recognizable symbol. A last-minute plaster job tries, poorly, to hide the inaccurate reference to “E Pluribus Unum” as our national motto (”In God We Trust” was established by Congress as the national motto in 1956). Even the U.S. Constitution is said to be grossly misrepresented in the exhibit. As the Heritage Foundation’s Matt Spalding writes, the excerpts on display are a “temple to liberals’ ‘living Constitution.’”

We join the chorus of citizens, who, as patrons of this Visitors Center, demand fidelity to the Founders and a more accurate portrayal of the important role of faith in American life. To help sound the alarm, contact your congressmen and ask them to restore Christianity to its place of prominence in the U.S. Capitol.

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Randian Objectivism – The Crack Cocaine of Egotism

A couple of years ago, I attended a political rally in of all places a church dining room. The room was packed. The candidate made a somewhat halting testimony of his recent conversion to Christianity but a few moments later said, “I am a Randian Objectivist.” It was a strange statement to make in the context. The words went over me like an electric shock. I quickly looked around the room and saw that virtually no one understood what they had just heard.

My first thought was, “My God, don’t these people know what this guy just said?” Randianism means that the person is a follower of Ayn Rand, a Russian immigrant Hollywood screenwriter turned philosopher who formed a whole philosophical movement around the virtues of selfishness. Objectivism is a philosophy grounded in the work of William James which holds that the the truth of a statement is determined by its utility to the individual. So, what the guy was actually saying was, “In my world, selfishness is the supreme virtue and the truth of what I say and I what I hear you say will always be measured by its pragmatic usefulness in the furtherance of my own interests.”

Randian Objectivism and Evangelical Christianity are completely antithetical. Evangelical Christians believe that salvation is granted by a totally sovereign, omniscient God when the human being surrenders control of their life to Him through saving grace provided by the sacrifice of God the Son, Jesus Christ. Christians are then commanded to live similar lives of self sacrifice. The philosophy of Ayn Rand holds:

“For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors – between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of incompetents on earth. And no one came to say that your life belongs to you and that the good is to live it. (Atlas Shrugged) AND NOW I SEE THE FACE OF GOD, AND I RAISE THIS GOD OVER THE EARTH, THIS GOD WHOM MEN HAVE SOUGHT SINCE MEN CAME INTO BEING, THIS GOD WHO WILL GRANT THEM JOY AND PEACE AND PRIDE. THIS GOD, THIS ONE WORD “I.” (Anthem, pg. 97)

You don’t have to be a theologian to find the origins of Randianism. Isaiah 14:13,14 is probably the earliest recorded statement of the underlying spirit of Randianism and identification of its author Satan:

“13For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.”

Renowned Christian writer the Rev. John Piper admits to having gone through an Ayn Rand “phase” as a young professor and being brought up short about it after an older professors saw him reading Atlas Shrugged and warned, “That stuff is incredibly dangerous.” In his article The Ethics of Ayn Rand, Piper now agrees, stating, “He was right. For a certain mindset, she is addicting and remarkably compelling in her atheistic rationalism.”

Randianism is the crack cocaine of egotism. It legitimizes man’s basest motives and provides an acceptable philosophical framework for not only practicing selfishness but celebrating it. It replaces God with the individual ego and lets man worship himself instead of his Creator. Randian Objectivism, like crack cocaine, is incredibly addictive and is to be avoided at all costs.