Back after a nice week of staycation. Got things done like painting our patio wall in a pretty dark teal to make a cool cave for the summer , ate good food, drank good wine and beer, and hung out with my husband. (memes and pictures below)
Now, back to silly cultists insisting how only their cult is the right one. Mark McGee, yet another supposed hard atheist who converted, is ever so sure that only his version of the cult is the right one and is clutching his pearls over “young people” joining him.
“I’ll share more with you in the coming weeks and months, but please know that I remember what it’s like to be a young Christian in a world that offers so much but delivers so little. I’ve also seen the damage that churches, denominations, and so-called Christian colleges have done to my generation. We live in a divided nation now, and we lived in a divided nation when I was saved. Things are not so different and the ‘real answers’ are still the same – just like they were two-thousand years ago. I hope something I share through these podcasts will help you through the obstacles you’ll face in your journey. I’m glad we’re in it together!”
funny how christians splintered immediately and still can’t agree on who the TrueChristians(tm) are and whose magic decoder ring works best. My response below:
in that there are thousands of different versions of “christain theism” which one is the right one since they contradict each other in many very basic ways:
free will vs predetermination
how to interpret the bible
what their god considers to be a sin
what their god considers to be moral
who is saved
How someone is saved
what heaven and hell are
what baptism does and how to do it
and as expected, you attack other christians, ever so sure only your version is the “right” one. In that not a single christian can do what jesus promised, it seems you are either all getting something wrong or your god doesn’t exist. No “devil” just cultists who are vain and arrogant and want to control others.
Club Schadenfreude 
I’m always a bit skeptical when people say they were an atheist and converted to a Christian. I mean, I consider atheism a default position, as in everyone is born as an atheist iniitially… I doubt he arrived at an atheist position after critical thinking though, otherwise there’s no way he would be converted.
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yep, I figure that the vast number of these claims are made to try to get cred with other christians. a more dramatic “origin story” sells better than “oh I just was a christian since that’s what my parents told me was true”.
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“Liked” this twice, both vanished. Wouldn’t let me like a third time! Our blogs have an odd relationship.
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that is far too true. no idea what is going on
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Wow. Where do you find them?
He claims to have been a radio talk show host (who, on air, criticized Christianity) in the 60s when he was a teenager. He says he was 23 in 1971, at which time he joined the persecuted Christian hordes.
Before that he was a “journalist” who criticized them. I cannot validate any of that from the blog page. No bona fide evidence, resume, vita, or evidence for his claims. When they make claims with zero proof, my skeptical spectacles shine bright. I say, at best he was a “none.” He provides no qualifications to support his claimed qualifications.
He may not have believed in any god and thus may have fit the definition of atheist. Okay. So what? I like how they make the “I was lost but now…” claim in order to somehow make their holier than thou claim more betta’.
Anyway, glad to see you had a rewarding time at home got the patio painted. Mine needs cleaning. Have a good summer and stay safe.
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Oh, I find them on wordpress when I look up posts hat have atheism in their keywords. I suspect he’s just another fraud who made *all* of it up. no one seems to have ever heard of him. There’s an interview with him at the C.S. Lewis Institute, and unsurpsingly, he makes a lot of claims, was raised christian and still never mentions what radio stations or TV stations he was affiliated with or what he wrote as a supposed “journalist”. It’s notable that he claims all of the following and yet not a scrap of it can be found on the internet: “He began in radio news in 1967 and moved into television news in 1981. He has been an investigative reporter, anchor, producer, and news manager. He was also a state correspondent for two major metro newspapers, a regional correspondent for several broadcast networks, and reported for two national wire services. Mark retired as a television news manager in 2009”
what it sounds like is that he took Lee Strobel’s nonsense and just changed a few things. I also discovered that this rather pathetic fraud also mangled a Chinese book on martial arts and had to spew his cult’s nonsense all through it. He claimes to be an “editor” of a book out of print, and he didn’t edit anything at all, just tried to spread his lies.
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