“I get mildly annoyed when I see a billboard touting any kind of religious belief. A billboard touting religious unbelief is just as annoying. If you think you possess the secrets of the universe, fine. Just don’t feel the need to edify the rest of the world.”
I see billboards advertising products I find detestable and just don’t buy them. I don’t have a problem with atheists advertising atheism, or churches advertising Christianity, or casinos advertising gambling. No annoyance whatsoever. I just wonder why the atheist has to advertise against “god(s)”.
In the same way, when one of us chooses “to edify the rest of the world” you don’t have to buy it. Meanwhile, we MUST tell the rest of the world the good news. If you are offended, well, that, my FRiend is a choice.
Meanwhile, we MUST tell the rest of the world the good news.
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Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, 1620.
Luke 19:37-40
As he was drawing near—already on the way down the Mount of Olives—the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen, saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”
And some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.”
He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”