Evangelist Ray Comfort was discussing his new book and his recent efforts to witness to atheists with Bott Radio Network’s Janet Mefferd on Tuesday when the hostess noted there has never been an atheist president, and there are currently no atheists in Congress.
“I don’t know if you’ve heard the saying, ‘Religion has caused more wars than anything.’ That’s a favorite of atheists, and it just isn’t true,” he said. “According to Encyclopedia of Wars, published in 2004, there’s been 1,763 wars up until 2004. Only 8 percent were religious wars, and two-thirds were in the name of Islam, so 92 percent of all wars have been more political in nature …
“So, while we’re talking atrocities, wars and deaths, atheists have caused 110 million deaths in the last hundred years. Stalin, 60 million—he was an atheist. Mao, 40 million, and he was an atheist. Pol Pot, 1.7 million, he was an atheist. Vladimir Lenin, 5 million people slaughtered, he was an atheist. So, when people realize that, you can’t trust an atheist in a position of authority, especially politically.”
Comfort said atheists can certainly appear to be “nice people” when they are first met, but given power, they will “do what they want and carry out their own agendas.” He said atheists “don’t have any moral high ground to stand on because they’re not standing on any whatsoever.”
“The irony is that the polls tell us people put atheists on a par with rapists,” he added. “They say, ‘Why is that? Don’t people realize how intellectual we are?’
“If you study it and think about it, there are certain things Americans hold dear to them … Atheists are suing Christians for things they hold dear to them. A judge has the Ten Commandments on the wall in his courtroom, he gets sued. A sheriff, if he has ‘In God We Trust’—which is our national motto—on a sticker on his car, he gets taken to court. Bible verses on government sites, they get sued.”
Mefferd also noted that millennials who are just now joining the American electorate are less likely to see atheism as repugnant, a point Comfort brought up in his book, as well. She wondered how that might impact the political landscape in the future, perhaps leading to an atheist president or member of Congress.
“Well, the irony is that even those millennials prefer to vote for a Christian than an atheist,” he said. “It’s a call to Christians to say, ‘Hey, let’s stop sitting in our pews and relaxing. We’ve got to get out there.’ Jesus would go into the world and preach the gospel to every creature and not wait for people to come into the church. You’ve got as much chance of an atheist or young person visiting a church as you have a criminal visiting the police station. It’s the last place they want to go.”
Comfort said there is need for “fire in our pulpits.” Pastors who don’t preach about sin, righteousness and judgment are filling their churches with false converts.
“Government should come to the church for moral guidance,” he added. “We should be salt on this earth. Yet, when salt has lost its flavor, Jesus said it would be trampled under the foot of men. That’s exactly what has happened to the church.”
Comfort’s latest book is titled Fat Chance: Why Pigs Will Fly Before America has an Atheist President. You can listen to the entire interview below.
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