Hi all,
While Mr. Drennan may have acted impulsively -- I can understand his frustration and his reasoning. No Christian should have to put up with people mocking and cursing our God or our Bible. As far as I am concerned, the humanist group were the first to be at fault. This is from the article which O No posted:
Andy Drennen apologized in a letter posted Monday on the website Reddit. He said he posted the hastily drawn sign in his shop, Gelato Mio, on Saturday after seeing someone attending Skepticon delivering a mock sermon and cursing the Bible.
Why did a humanist, atheist, and secularist (or all of the above) feel a need to "deliver a mock sermon and curse the Bible"?
And, why do the people running the humanist convention allow such a flagrant offense against Christians to happen at their convention? If the offense had been against homosexuals, Satanists, New Agers, Cultists, Buddhists, etc. -- would the organizers have allowed it? Most likely not. But, against Christians -- it is open hunting season.
Does it make them feel bigger, more powerful? Does it make them feel empowered? If you really think about it -- there is no logical reason for doing such an offensive act. If the humanist want to meet, discuss their own beliefs and their own organization, discuss the business details of their organizations, etc. -- can they not do this without belittling others. Or, is that part of being a humanist? Was that the true purpose of the convention -- to attack Christians and Christianity?
Do these people need to put others down in order to feel that they have power? It all seem very childish to me.
Now, I realize that my two devoted Lady Admirers, and a couple of their locked-at-the-hip buddies, will accuse me of doing the same thing. They are wrong. You will not find me making nasty remarks about another person's belief.
It what the another person writes is blatantly false -- and I can, from the Bible, show where this is false teaching -- that is not attacking anyone. That is not making nasty remarks against anyone. If you tell me that the moon is purple cheese -- and, I can show you factually that it is not -- that is not an attack, that is a correction.
However, for the humanist convention to publicly make a mock sermon and curse our Christian Bible -- is nothing less than a viscous attack. And, I do not blame the Christian shop owner for being offended. Yes, he acted impulsively -- but, I can understand his feelings.
I cannot count the number of times I have wanted to do the same with the small handful of people on the Religion Forum who post offensive comments about the Christian religion, our God, or our Bible. Many times I have written a post -- and, then, once my steam had been blown -- just deleted what I had written.
So, was this shop owner wrong? To a degree, yes. But, his offense was miniscule compared to that of the humanist convention people.
God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,
Bill