WORLD: Christian Tebow and Atheist Dawkins

Tim Tebow knows his future

Doctors thought Timothy Richard Tebow, the youngest of five homeshooled children, would be stillborn. While doing missions work in the Philippines, his pregnant mother contracted a bacterial infection. The medication she took caused placental disruption. Doctors recommended abortion, but his mother refused. In his memoir, Through My Eyes, Tebow said his mother’s pregnancy caused her “a great deal of pain and bleeding.” The whole family prayed for him.
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Before he was drafted, Tebow appeared in two Focus on the Family commercials that ran during the 2010 Super Bowl. The ads featured him and his mother, and the message clearly was pro-life and anti-abortion, although the words were never uttered.

While the Great Commission doesn’t require that we attain celebrity status to be effective, God raised Tebow to an international stage, and he seems to be using his platform well. While his on-field numbers leave much to be desired, his off-field mission to help and to heal both physical and spiritual sickness inspires.

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Richard Dawkins encourages atheists to mock and ridicule Christians

[At last Saturday's Reason Rally] Dawkins called on atheists and agnostics to “ridicule and show contempt” for the religious and their doctrines. The example he used was the Roman Catholic belief that the bread and wine of communion turns into the actual body and blood of Christ. He encouraged atheists to mock and ridicule the religious in public.

Although Protestants don’t adhere to the doctrine of transubstantiation, we do believe in the virgin birth and that Christ rose from the dead, which atheists find equally mock-worthy. But it wouldn’t occur to this Protestant to mock and ridicule Roman Catholics. We can reason together from Scripture the doctrine’s veracity.

If Saturday’s gathering was a rally for reason, why didn’t Dawkins urge the crowd toreason with people of faith? His own words betray his contempt not just for Christians, but also for God. Isn’t it telling how strongly the godless embrace godlessness? One wonders why Dawkins, an intelligent man, would promote scorn instead of discourse. Perhaps he’s afraid of conviction.

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