Kirk Cameron, Evangelical Christian and former child television star (he played goofball Mike Seaver in the popular ABC TV sitcom "Growing Pains") and Christian author Ray Comfort took on two atheists in an ABC Nightline debate held in New York this past Saturday, and broadcast on the internet yesterday afternoon and on ABC TV last night. The atheists were represented by Brian Sapient and Kelly (no surname), two of the people behind the self proclaimed "Rational Response Squad" , the group that sponsors the odious web based "blasphemy challenge."
The topic of the “debate” was the existence of God, with Mr. Cameron and Mr. Comfort arguing in the affirmative, and the surname challenged atheists arguing in the negative.
To call the event a “debate” is an injustice to the term, however, as the evening quickly devolved into an exchange of press releases between the two sides, interspersed with the typically nasty and ill mannered catcalls emanating from the atheists in the crowd. ABC, in its wisdom, had specified that the crowd of one hundred would be evenly split between fifty atheists and fifty Christians.
Stylistically, Mr. Cameron knocked the ball out of the park. He came across as likable, articulate, and sincere. Dare we say it, there is something almost Reaganesque in his ability to communicate. The atheist opponents mumbled responses, filled with "ums" and "you knows", and delivered their "zingers" with such obvious looks of intellectual contempt for Cameron and Comfort it was cringe inducing. ABC's "neutral" moderator, the unctuous Martin Bashir, whose claim to journalistic objectivity was first made in his pandering interview of noted bizarro Michael Jackson, did his best to cover the atheist bases for the communication challenged duo of Brian and Kelly, repeating their claims in a more articulate style. Bashir pressed Comfort and Cameron to respond to the atheist's taunt "who created the Creator?" suggesting strongly that the concept of an eternal Creator was inconsistent with all known logic and science.
The unpleasant nature of the atheists behavior on this evening apparently surprised both Cameron and Comfort, but to long time observers of the new militant atheism such conduct has come to be expected. The insufferable intolerance of the unholy trinity of militant modern atheists (Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennnett, and Sam Harris) simply asserts its intellectual superiority, then proceeds to demonstrate its completely dogmatic resistance to fact. The group of militant atheists behind the self proclaimed "Rational Response Squad" has mounted a destructive campaign of online bullying in the so called blasphemy challenge, in which young Christian teenagers are socially coerced into making online rejections of God and faith.
Though it's hard to imagine a more evil and destructive use of modern communication technology, this campaign continues to cause untold thousands of parents great grief and sadness. The arrogant young atheists behind this movement care not a whit for the young children or the families involved, they simply seek their 15 minutes of notoriety and fame. They compound their arrogance with chilling repetition of Joseph Goebbel's "Big Lie" philosophy. You may be familiar with those web banners claiming that Jesus was not a historical figure. The crowd at "Rational Response Squad" is behind those banners, caring little that the evidence of the existence of Jesus is overwhelming. Just ask the non-Christian historians of the day, including Josephus, Pliny, Tacitus, and Suetonius. Continue >>
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