I have just seen for the first time a picture of the billboard the American Atheists put up in their attempt to undermine Christmas. It can be found at the ABC 7 website. I think that since their vain intent was to oppose “reason” to faith, they’d better fire the designer of this ad . Why? Because the picture is worth a thousand words. The picture on the billboard of the Nativity scene with the Wise Men approaching is a proclamation of the truth. The manger scene, in itself, is so powerful a testimony of the Reality of the Incarnation that the printed words denying it seem to me to all the more to underscore it. If I wanted to deny God’s existence — I’ll play the fool for a second — I wouldn’t write “There is no God, use your reason” over a picture, let’s say, of a beautiful sunset. Nor would I write them apposite a picture of a new-born baby. And I certainly would not write them against the backdrop of the Nativity scene and This Baby. At least the fool in Psalm 13 who would deny the existence of God only said it “in his heart.” Far greater is the folly of one who would flaunt his unbelief on a public billboard! Then, again, maybe we should be grateful to the American Atheists for being so, well . . . irrational.
