September 11th 2001
Fourteen years ago today thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. To date, this tragedy is considered to have the greatest loss of police and firefighters in our country’s history. With almost 3,000 people passing away from the events that occurred, it is most certainly a memory that will be burned into the minds of those who were cognitive enough to understand what was happening on that day.
Sadly, many atheists such as Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, decided that after these attacks they were going to begin an evangelistic effort to turn people away from God and steer them into atheism. They used this tragic event to help advocate for a “New Atheism,” which would challenge religion, agreeing that “religion should not simply be tolerated but should be countered, criticized, and exposed by rational argument wherever its influence arises.””New Atheist Victor J. Stenger, would go as far as saying, “Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.” But on that day, was it religion that made those men fly those planes into those buildings? Actually no, it was sin. The same sin that sent those men flying a plane into buildings is the same sin that moved Pol Pot, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong and Lenin to kill millions upon millions of people. The sin committed by these men is actually the second of the ten commandments, and it commands us not to fashion a god that will fit our own liking (Exodus 20:4). Everyone of these leaders (I include Muhammed in this as well) created a god that fit their own image. Whether atheist or otherwise, man will typically worship anything other than the one true God. If we look to Romans 1 on the subject, we find that their rejection of God has nothing to do with the evidence provided, it is made evident within them, but they “suppress the truth in unrighteousness” (Romans 1:18-19). These men would rather have their sin than their savior “and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man” (Romans 1:23).
When we look back on this date, remembering those who were lost, let us also remember that roughly 150,000 people die on a daily basis. What are you doing to make sure they know our Lord and Savior before they die? Do not let an atheist do more evangelism than you! Just do as Jesus commanded:
Mark 16:15
“Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.”
