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Tuesday September 07, 2010
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Editorials
Editorials
Subsequently, the campaign received sufficient financial support to carry the message on the outside of 800 buses throughout England. From Britain the campaign has spread to Spain, Washington, D.C. and Canada, where as of mid-February, Toronto’s Transit Commission (TTC) gave the go-ahead for buses to carry the untruthful slogan. The campaign has been endorsed by leading atheists, in Britain by Richard Dawkins, well-known Oxford professor and author of The God Delusion, and elsewhere by various atheists’ clubs registered as Humanist or Freethought Associations. The idea was further pushed by sympathetic media such as Canada’s Globe and Mail which conveniently provided the addresses of fundraising websites (Jan. 16; Jan. 29, ’09). The campaign also coincides with the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth (Feb. 12) and the 150th anniversary of his On the Origins of the Species (Nov. 24). In the opinion of Robert Fulford, Darwin’s “vision of humanity rising slowly from mud over 80,000 generations can be more inspiring than the account of a deity creating the universe in seven days (National Post, Feb. 10, 09). Really? God is not just “a deity;” he is the Divine Person who is Love. In his desire to share this love he created the earth and the heavens, the plants, animals and Man. He created the world and the universe out of nothing. Man he made in his own image and likeness, male and female he made them, so that they could communicate with one another and have a personal relationship with Him, their maker. The “likeness” is not physical because God has no body. It is spiritual. It is God’s wisdom (Genesis 1-2.3). From the start God looked after man lovingly. As St. Athanasius put it 1,600 years ago, quoting Scripture, “You have made all things by your wisdom and the earth is full of your creatures.” And as the book of Proverbs explains: “I, Wisdom dwell with experience… Mine are counsel and advice Mine is strength; I am understanding By me kings reign And lawgivers establish justice… Those who love me I also love And those who seek me find me (Proverbs 8: 1-5, 12-36) But, alas, human beings disobeyed God. Seduced into thinking they could be God’s equals, they lost God’s personal spiritual relationship and were left to fend for themselves. But even then God did not withhold hope and promised them a future Saviour (Genesis 2.4– 4.26). However, the lot of their progeny grew worse, so much so that God despaired of having created them. “Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence” (Gen. 7.11). Yet mankind was saved through one righteous man, Noah, who refused to stoop to violence and injustice and thereby earned God’s approval (Gen. 6, 7). The biblical account sets forth the purpose of man (the glory of God), the goodness of created things, man’s stewardship over them, the equality of man and woman, the dignity of work, the glory of children as gifts from God. Are we to believe Mr. Fulford’s Darwinist vision of man crawling slowly out of the mud supposedly by his own power, in his own time of chaos, and transforming himself limb by limb, organ by organ, all without design, only by accident, is more inspiring and profound than the Book of Genesis? Do we reject evolution? Not at all. But we do reject evolution without God. Atheism is negative, hence its denial of God’s existence. Its overwhelming vice is pride and arrogance, even greater than the error of our first parents. If its denial of God were to become common it would hand all of us over to darkness, chaos and destruction. This is what ruthless atheist regimes in the 20th and 21st centuries have forced upon entire populations in Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa. And this is what atheist and abortionist Henry Morgentaler has done for forty years in Canada: kill and destroy what God has made in his own image and likeness. Let us honour the biblical account of creation and teach it to all our children. © Copyright 1997-2009 Catholic Insight
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