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CNN Pushes Atheist Agenda; Jesus Enraged -
03-21-2015, 05:21 PM
THIS is just par for the course from the joo-controlled CNN (Communist News Network). They have been persecuting Christians for years with their "science news" and support for muslims and other godless cults. Now they are forcing the atheist agenda down our Christian throats!
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The Friendly Atheists Next Door
It's two weeks before Christmas, which means the Shaughnessys are deep into their December rituals.
Cookies have been baked and sprinkled with enough sugar to give a gingerbread man diabetes. A Christmas tree, sparkling with colored lights and surrounded by a small troop of Santa Clauses, stands in the corner of the living room, waiting.
Harry and Charlotte Shaughnessy watch their children dip into a stash of ornaments: a Welsh flag from Grace's semester abroad; a bauble from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, where Todd is a freshman; a trinket embroidered with Brennen's name and 1998, the year the youngest Shaughnessy was born.
Harry, nursing a rum and Coke, smiles at the sight of an even older ornament: a stocking that says "Charlotte and Harry, 1988," their first Christmas as a couple.
In those days, the Shaughnessys were Catholic. They herded their children to Mass on Sundays and celebrated the sacraments, mostly. While Charlotte taught at the parish school and Harry started a computer consulting business, they tried, for the most part, to follow the church's doctrines.
But one day a question cracked the foundation of Harry's faith, and the fissure slowly widened until the walls shivered and the roof shook and the whole damn house fell down. Like most demolitions, it caused a disturbance.
Harry, who turns 44 next month, comes from a long line of Catholics. The kind of people who call a priest when trouble erupts and see God's touch in every corner of their lives.
As the Christmas tree fills with family artifacts, Harry announces that it's time for the topper.
"Whose turn is it this year?"
"Mine!" Brennen yells, grabbing a tangle of pipe cleaners and yellow felt.
After terse negotiations, Grace, the eldest, climbs the stairs to nestle the ornament in the treetop.
It has noodle-like limbs and googly eyes. This is no angel, no star of Bethlehem. This is the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Right about now, I imagine you might have two questions: 1. Why are atheists celebrating Christmas? 2. What, pray tell, is the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
The Shaughnessys celebrate Christmas, Harry says, for some of the same reasons other people do: "Because it's a great time to get together, care for each other and have a party."
"And who doesn't want a tree with pretty lights in their house?" Charlotte chimes in.
Since they aren't Christian anymore, the Shaughnessys shape their own holiday traditions. One year, they stretched Christmas across a week, with celebrations leading up to December 25. "That sounds so Jewish now," Harry jokes. It was anticlimactic, Grace says. When Christmas came, they had nothing left to give, nowhere to go. The ritual was not repeated.
But the Flying Spaghetti Monster stuck.
The Church of the FSM, as "Pastafarians" call it, is a faux religion founded in 2005 to satirize creationism. It has since become a symbol for everything atheists find silly and superstitious about faith.
To learn more about atheism: Watch "Atheists: Inside the World of Non-Believers" Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET on CNN.
Harry made the FSM ornament several years ago, after deciding the angel atop the Shaughnessys' tree no longer fit the family. It was a small but symbolic moment, this changing of the guard. As the monster knocked the angel aside, it nearly announced: The Shaughnessys were "out" as atheists.
Nearly.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster had to hide when Harry's parents came over for dinner. It was shunted out of sight, an emblem under cover, a secret that illuminated another aspect of Harry's long and sometimes painful path to atheism:
Each step, even the ones that brought him happiness, carried him further from the faith that had once comforted his conscience, bonded his family and still guides many of them, God willing, to a heavenly hereafter. Knowing this, Harry did what many of us might. He hid his doubts, stashing them in some dark room with his secret fears and his irreverent ornament.
Which worked fine, until it didn't.
Harry tries to shine a sunny face on life, but the bags beneath his eyes darken when he's stressed out and can't sleep, which has been often of late.
Still, he is happy this Christmas. He has finally found something to nourish his head and his heart, the places where his faith once lived. He hopes it will last.
The first time I caught sight of Harry Shaughnessy, he was wearing a red cape, a skin-colored bodysuit and a crown. Carrying a scepter, he marched to the stage where his friend was receiving an award from the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a national group that promotes atheism.
As its name suggests, the Emperor Has No Clothes Award salutes people who lay bare religion's supposed shortcomings. Todd Stiefel had earned the honor, but Harry dressed the part and stole the spotlight.
The strange scene unfolded last May in Raleigh, North Carolina, where some 200 atheists had gathered for a conference on nonbelievers in the Bible Belt. Harry's prank, I later learned, was part of a war with his friend over who can embarrass the other more in public. The consensus seems to be that Harry is winning. On his list of life skills, relentlessness ranks higher than discretion.
A few hours after his naked-emperor prank, Harry and I met in person. He has a flop of brown hair and the moonlight skin of someone who spends a lot of time staring at screens. He finds humor everywhere, and it's the rare conversation that ends without a smile starting to curl across his lips.
Initially, Harry struck me as a typical American atheist. He is white, upper middle-class, college-educated and, as should be clear, male, all common traits among unbelievers.
His religious past is quite common as well. If you gathered all the ex-Catholics in the United States, they would form the country's second-largest religion, with nearly 23 million "members." Only the Catholic Church itself is larger.
By comparison, the number of self-identified American atheists is small – less than 3% of the adult population. But that number has been inching upward, passing American Jews (2.2%) in the latest round of surveys.
I've been following that ascension for years, watching America's "atheist awakening" burst forth from a few best-sellers to become a force with the potential to reshape the country's culture, politics and spirituality.
But I am also interested in the small picture – less atheism as a mass movement and more the thoughts that flicker and burn through someone's mind as he forsakes faith. As a man like Harry begins to bend toward atheism, what are the turning points, and what happens after the last corner is turned?
I talked to Harry for 10 months about those questions. And the more I asked, the more complex his answers became. I soon realized that Harry is not a typical atheist. He's part of a bevy of former believers who, while trying to raise atheist children and create secular communities, are tapping an unlikely source: the religions they left behind.
This may sound like returning to a restaurant whose food you found unappetizing and asking for the recipe. A more charitable view might acknowledge that religion has met human needs for millennia and knows a few things about how to make people feel fulfilled and inspired.
The atheists reaching back into their religious past don't fit the stereotypes. They are neither famous nor angry. They're not Bill Maher or Richard Dawkins. They are friendly, next-door neighbors who work regular-Joe jobs, ferry their children to soccer practice and try to lead happy, honest lives without faith. Ned Flanders, say, without the Homeric neighbor or the okily dokily God.
But when you live in the Bible Belt and come from a big Irish Catholic family, you're not supposed to become a nonbeliever, much less lead a new phase of atheism. You're supposed to sit in church, say your prayers and raise your children to do the same.
During our first interview, I asked Harry about the costs of becoming a nonbeliever.
He sighed, and a cloud crossed his face.
Harry was raised in a cocoon of Catholicism. Nearly everyone the Shaughnessys socialized with belonged to their church or attended their parish school.
Every so often, a priest would stop by for dinner, which was invariably preceded by the Christian prayer of grace, "Bless us, O Lord, and these thy gifts …"
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The article goes on and on, but I don't want to subject you to the filth it tries to pass off as "normal." For those strong of Faith, the entire mess can be read HERE. Suffice to say, anyone watching this program will have a lot of explaining to do ON BENDED KNEE when Christ Jesus returns and you appear before Him.
Here is a partial list from just a few scripture verses:
Hypocrites (Matthew 24:51), The Unforgiving (Mark 11:26), Homosexuals (Romans 1:26, 27), Fornicators (Romans 1:29), The Wicked (Romans 1:29), The Covetous (Romans 1:29), The Malicious (Romans 1:29), The Envious (Romans 1:29), Murderers (Romans 1:29), The Deceitful (Romans 1:29), Backbiters (Romans 1:30), Haters of God (Romans 1:30), The Despiteful (Romans 1:30), The Proud (Romans 1:30), Boasters (Romans 1:30), Inventors of evil (Romans 1:30), Disobedient to parents (Romans 1:30), Covenant breakers (Romans 1:31), The Unmerciful (Romans 1:31), The Implacable (Romans 1:31), The Unrighteous (1Corinthians 6:9), Idolaters (1Corinthians 6:9), Adulterers (1Corinthians 6:9), The Effeminate (1Corinthians 6:9), Thieves (1Corinthians 6:10), Drunkards (1Corinthians 6:10), Reviler (1Corinthians 6:10), Extortioners (1Corinthians 6:10), The Fearful (Revelation 21:8), The Unbelieving (Revelation 21:8), The Abominable (Revelation 21:8), Whoremongers (Revelation 21:8), Sorcerers (Revelation 21:8), All Liars (Revelation 21:8)
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Re: CNN Pushes Atheist Agenda; Jesus Enraged -
03-21-2015, 10:47 PM
Those people may be caught by Christians and helped to see the error of their ways. I pray it will be so.
God judgeth the righteous, And God is angry with the wicked every day- Psalm 7:11
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Re: CNN Pushes Atheist Agenda; Jesus Enraged -
03-22-2015, 12:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Alvin Moss
Those people may be caught by Christians and helped to see the error of their ways. I pray it will be so.
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I've already got their address and have sent a team of Special Ops Prayer Warriors to convert them. I hope to have a live press conference on FOX News simultaneous to the CNN propaganda and let the family renounce satan and accept Christ Jesus as their Savior©.
Here is a partial list from just a few scripture verses:
Hypocrites (Matthew 24:51), The Unforgiving (Mark 11:26), Homosexuals (Romans 1:26, 27), Fornicators (Romans 1:29), The Wicked (Romans 1:29), The Covetous (Romans 1:29), The Malicious (Romans 1:29), The Envious (Romans 1:29), Murderers (Romans 1:29), The Deceitful (Romans 1:29), Backbiters (Romans 1:30), Haters of God (Romans 1:30), The Despiteful (Romans 1:30), The Proud (Romans 1:30), Boasters (Romans 1:30), Inventors of evil (Romans 1:30), Disobedient to parents (Romans 1:30), Covenant breakers (Romans 1:31), The Unmerciful (Romans 1:31), The Implacable (Romans 1:31), The Unrighteous (1Corinthians 6:9), Idolaters (1Corinthians 6:9), Adulterers (1Corinthians 6:9), The Effeminate (1Corinthians 6:9), Thieves (1Corinthians 6:10), Drunkards (1Corinthians 6:10), Reviler (1Corinthians 6:10), Extortioners (1Corinthians 6:10), The Fearful (Revelation 21:8), The Unbelieving (Revelation 21:8), The Abominable (Revelation 21:8), Whoremongers (Revelation 21:8), Sorcerers (Revelation 21:8), All Liars (Revelation 21:8)
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Re: CNN Pushes Atheist Agenda; Jesus Enraged -
03-22-2015, 01:26 AM
My immediate thought was that the Shaughnessy family are well on their way to becoming True Christians having already rejected the Mary worshipping lifestyle of sodomy and pedophilia. All they need in their lives now is Jesus, before Satan gets his fangs into them. It's a race against time, but I believe that family has a chance of being Saved®.
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Re: CNN Pushes Atheist Agenda; Jesus Enraged -
03-22-2015, 01:30 AM
Then, if it is God's will, we will catch them.
God judgeth the righteous, And God is angry with the wicked every day- Psalm 7:11
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