Here is the article which was first posted here.

According to the article, "Deep Down Atheists Know God is Real" but they deny God because "Atheists Just Want to Keep Sinning." At first I thought this article was a satire... But from their Facebook page, I'm led to believe it's legitimate.

Now, at first the article just seems silly. It's so obviously wrong that we laugh. But, honestly, it's not too funny. It's insidious. This is a mentality which has plagued Christianity for over a thousand years. It is a mentality which vilifies and dehumanizes those with different beliefs.

During the middle ages, one of the common accusations made against the Jews was that of host desecration. What was the host desecration? It was the belief that Jews secretly stole the host (the sacred bread in a church) in order to torture it. According to transubstantiation, the host literally becomes the body of Jesus. Medieval Christians believed that Jews would steal this bread in order to continue torturing the body of Jesus.

What's insidious about this mentality? Well, central to the Christian belief in the host desecration is the belief that Jews know that Jesus is true. If one does not believe that Jesus is truly the messiah and God, then the host is nothing more than a piece of bread. Why then would Jews steal and torture a piece of bread? Medieval Christians held that it wasn't that Jews disbelieved in Jesus, it was that the Jews knew the truth but denied it. Jews were haters of truth and lovers of lies.

What kind of person knows the truth yet denies it? What kind of person loves sin more than God? How can you relate to such a person? You can't relate to such a person. A person who denies the truth and loves wickedness isn't a rational human. This is a mentality which dehumanizes the disbeliever. It is a belief which denies the rational ability of a disbeliever. It is a belief which denies virtue in the disbeliever. It is a belief which affirms some sort of fundamental fault in (at least the mentality of) the disbeliever.

It didn't go well for us. Am I saying that atheists are going to be hunted down by Christians? No. Of course not. All I'm saying is that it is the same mentality, and it is disgusting. It's not funny, it's saddening and divisive.

More importantly, it is a widespread mentality. It is the central message presented by the movies God's Not Dead 1 & 2. The atheists presented do not disbelieve in God. They hate God. It is not the case that they have examined the evidence and rationally come to the conclusion that there is no God. Rather, they are individuals who have blinded themselves to the evidence and the conclusion. They know it to be true, but they don't want it to be true. Atheists are not rational individuals, they are children who try to yell loud enough to drown out the truth.

If this mentality was nothing but silly, these movies would have had no turn-out. So, how well did these movies do? This is why I can't laugh at articles like this one. I can't bring myself to find this mentality silly, it's insidious.

Sorry for the rant.