Imagine No Religion And Become A Fool!

Imagine there’s no heaven It’s easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today.… Imagine there’s no countries It isn’t hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace.… You may say I’m a dreamer But I’m not the only one I hope someday you’ll join us And the world will be as one….

John Lennon wrote this hippie garbage and I ignorantly sung it when I was in high school. But, this stuff is wrong, bad theology, and not worth much. Our friends over ar FFRF.Org think this is a Lennon's world is a great world? They believe that

The history of Western civilization shows us that most social and moral progress has been brought about by persons free from religions.

This sounds nice until you look at the facts? Atheism kills! In the name of creating a version of a religion-free utopia, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong collectively these atheist tyrants murdered more than 100 million people? Sure, we had the Crusades, the Inquisition, and the Salem Witch trials. The most-cited atrocities are either overblown or misrepresented. We don’t actually know how many people died in the crusades, record keeping not great. You can find estimates of 1 million to 9 million. This number is both Christians and Muslims. But, these was not a solely religious fight, the Christians were fighting to reclaim land that was stolen from by the invading Muslim hordes. They were very much nationalistic and political. But, they were overboard and are not a bright spot in Christian History. The Inquisition claimed 2,000 to 10,000 lives over three and a half centuries. The Salem witch trials produced fewer than 25 executions. So, there is more at stake than numbers. But, with no objective criteria or right and wrong atheism degenerates into “might make right”. Check out some great resources here Stand To Reason. Remember what Ps 14:1 says "A Fool Says In Heart There Is No God"

Glad God's Grace Has Kept Me From Being A Fool, Pastor Phillip