The bumper sticker read “Imagine a World Without God in it.” An obvious thought provoking message by a vocal atheist.
Atheists and agnostics have been more vocal in recent years. As if it is popular not to believe in God. Whereas in the years of my youth the existence of the Christian God was not questioned. In the 1980s, it was a rarity to find a fellow student who did not attend church services somewhere. I would have to assume that atheists received some type of negative experience from someone(s) claiming to be Christian in their impressionable years. Vocal and blatent about their beliefs, these Christians probably do more harm than good. I’m not saying we as Christians shouldn’t be passionate about what we belief…the hope of heaven…salvation through God’s grace. What I am saying is that we should be mindful of how we portray ourselves to those of the world, and even to our fellow Christians. Young Christians, or those who have a potential of weak faith, are liable to blame God when they see fellow Christians actiing inappropriately.
Still I have imagine who or what caused my fellow motorist to stop believing in God and to be so vocal about it. Was it a hypocritic preacher? A disciplinarian nun? An abusive priest? We may never know. Or perhaps since we have generations of atheist parents raising atheist children, perhaps nothing happened. No child in that family was brought to church and taught the Bible. The gospel was never preached to the young.