Ascension : Letters To The Editor
Submitted by The Islander (Islander Editors) 21.06.2012 (Article Archived on 05.07.2012)

I was disagreeably surprised to read in the Islander of 3rd May 2012 some propaganda for atheism.

Dear Editor                                                                                                                                                     12.6.2012
Maybe you can publish this article as a response to Mrs. Cook’s article.

I was disagreeably surprised to read in the Islander of 3rd May 2012 some propaganda for atheism.
The defamatory remarks were offending to believers among whom I count myself.
It is hard to understand how people still can defend atheism after having watched the catastrophic
upheavels of the atheistic regimes in the 20th century.
Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao and Pol Pot are responsible for the dead of more than 100 million people.
A soon to be released movie "Cristiada" will show what happened in Mexico during the Cristero Wars
under the regime of that anti religious president Plutarco Calles.
This president was responsible for the dead of 90000 Mexicans during the twenties of last century.
I can only admonish people to read books that defend the faith against attacks of atheists.
The branch of theology that is concerned with the reasoned defence of Christianity is called apologetics.
A book that provides good arguments for the existence of God is: “The Case for a Creator".
This book, written by Lee Strobel, an atheist-turned Christian, gives overwhelming 
evidence for the existence of a Creator. The book is available from Dr. Bill.
Another apologetic book by the same author is:" The Case for Christ".
It provides rational underpinnings for the Christian faith. Mr. Strobel concludes it requires more faith
for an atheist to maintain atheism than it would to trust in Jesus.
This book is also available from Dr. Bill.
Another apologetic author is Prof. Alister McGrath (1953- ).
Mr. McGrath started working as a D.Phil. in molecular biophysics in Oxford.
An atheist first, he converted and became Prof. of Theology in Oxford.
He is a profligate writer and uses to attack the aggressive atheism of Prof. Richard Dawkins.
He once called Dawkins "embarrassingly ignorant of Christian theology".
One of his books is called: “The Dawkins Delusion". A critical response to Dawkins' book:
"The God Delusion".
McGrath’s last book is called; “Why God does not go away".
This book is available from Dr. Milenko. In this book also McGrath points out the false
arguments of Dawkins and the likes.
 Did this D. Phil. McGrath suddenly become mad, psychotic or delusional when he became a believer?
Well, that is what Sam Harris (Neuroscientist) tries to make us believe.
Mrs. Cook invites us “to enjoy a feast of interesting quotations". And she quotes from Christopher Marlowe.
Here is another quote of Marlowe: "who love not tobacco and boys are fools".
I do not smoke and I love my wife. So, I am a fool. Thank you Mr. Marlowe.
The homosexual Marlowe was stabbed to death at the age of 29 in a pub brawl.
George Carlin (American comedian) was famous for 7 dirty words, which cannot be published
in the Islander. How he imagines hell is funny but nontheless childish.                                                                     A more adult view of hell is provided by Philosophy Prof. Peter Kreeft of Boston in his book:                              "Handbook of Christian Apologetics". Carlin's personal life was not so funny:                                                         An alcoholic and drug addict, he spent one year in rehabilitation.
Nietzsche was one of the most famous atheists. He was the man behind the “God is dead" theory.
He ended up in a lunatic asylum, because of irreparable brain damage due to syphilitic disease.
Richard Dawkins (English Biologist) avers that “science offers the best answers to the meaning
of life", that it can explain “why you ever were born in the first place". No way.
That explanation comes in stages.
To children, we tell them that they were delivered by the stork. And they are happy.
To scientists, we tell them they are the result of the fertilisation of an oocyte by a spermatocyte.
And they are happy.
But theologians tell us that we are conceived in God's mind before the dawn of ages.
Mrs. Cook asked us if we knew that the Earth is around 4.5 billion years old. Yes, we know.
What about the moon? As old. Do we also know that 35 craters on the moon are named after 17th century Catholic priests (Jesuits), who happened to be scientists at the same time.                                                             Their names are forever enshrined on the surface of the moon.
There is none Englishman among them, 2 Belgians, 5 Frenchmen, 6 Germans, 10 Italians.
The closer you get to Rome, the cleverer the people.
Or could it be that English Jesuits were killed because of their Catholic belief, which was regarded as atheism in the 17th century and which carried the death penalty.
Under Elisabeth England tried to get rid of the Jesuits as under Hitler Germany tried to get rid of the Jews.
St Augustine wrote: "Without any effort from our side God created us. Not without effort from our side
can we hope to go back to Him.
Atheists should try to make that effort. Which shouldn't be that difficult as they got a logical brain, which is made in the image of the Logos, Who is God.
In the beginning of his Gospel St. John wrote: “And the Word was God. This "Word" in Greek reads Logos.
So let us think logically, so that the big Logos will not need to be ashamed of His offspring with our small logic brain.

Jan Goossens
Georgetown Hospital