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Atheists Think Again
By
Roger Behra
A recent newspaper article revealed that the percentage of atheists in America has increased from 8% to 13%. That is a five percent increase during the past several years in spite of considerable evidence that God really exists. All the atheists should do now is get real, open their minds, do some serious reading, look around them, and accept some clear and factual evidence.
On a recent and much liked talk show that has six-million listeners an atheist listener called in during a program on near-death experiences and made a very big fool of himself. His mind was so closed that nothing the program host said was acceptable to him, while the atheist said nothing to prove his point at all. Callers that followed him were amazed at his ignorance.
All kinds of evidence was given during the program that God really exists, and that there is plenty of solid proof, which is quite overwhelming, when everything is taken into consideration.
The evidence and proof starts with the universe. The sun, moon, millions of stars, and all the planets that stay in orbit and place for centuries did not just happen. The universe is the product of a grand design, and the author is God alone.
Holy Scripture tells us about Jesus, who is God made man, and his crucifiction and death on the cross, which was unique and very agonizing. As a result of that, Jesus left us proof through His burial cloth which is called the Shroud of Turin. Carbon dating and extensive science investigation has not been able to disprove the miraculous existence and condition of the Shroud of Turin. Learn all about it in books printed on that subject.
Several people down through history to the present day have been blessed with the stigmata-the spontaneous physical development of the five wounds of the crucified Jesus. Read about Padre Pio of Italy who received the stigmata on September 20, 1918, and lived with it for 50 years. He died in 1968 and is now Saint Pio. There are several people living today who have the stigmata. Read about St. Pio.
Plenty of modern day proof lies with the millions of people who have had a near-death experience and how their lives have been greatly transformed. Science has finally agreed that NDE’s are real and the contents revealed about them can be believed. Many atheists have had a NDE, and their minds and thinking have been positively changed away from atheism. Their lives have been greatly transformed. That is evidence in action. It is greatly persuasive.
All of the proofs mentioned here are overwhelming in favor that God exists, that He had a Divine Son, Jesus, and that there is an afterlife for us with God. Only those with closed minds or biased thinking will ignore all the evidence given here, and that includes atheists and agnostics who have not had an NDE. Believe it, all the atheists and agnostics who have had a NDE and transformed life know better. They have thought again. They came away the real winners.
R. B.
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