“I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after the killing of the body, has power to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him.” (Luke 12:4–5)
Well, Richard Dawkins, an atheist and the author of The God Delusion,
recently made a controversial statement during an interview that
raising your child to believe in hell is worse than sexual abuse.
Dawkins tells the interviewer, “It seems to me that telling children
such that they really, really believe that people who sin are going to
go to hell and roast forever … It seems to me to be intuitively entirely
reasonable that that is a worse form of child abuse that will give more
nightmares, that will give more genuine distress” than being sexually
abused. (You can view the whole video clip on YouTube.)
Now, Dawkins is known for his extreme distaste for Christianity and
the God of the Bible. But his outrageous statements in that interview
show his open rebellion against God, and they stirred a lot of debate.
Even some secularists have been upset with what he had to say.
Really, as I’ve said many times, Dawkins is trying to convince
himself. He is, so to speak, putting his hands over his ears and yelling
at God, “No, no, no! I refuse to believe.” And so, as Romans 1 tells
us, he “suppresses the truth in unrighteousness.” While he is in his
earthly body for such a short time (very short—compared to eternity), he
wants to yell at God and essentially be his own god! But there will
come a time when his earthly body will die (like everyone else), and
then he will face his Creator and answer for his outright, willful
rebellion. I pray for Richard Dawkins. Unless he repents, his future is
one in hell for eternity, but that’s not God’s fault. Continue at Ken Ham
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