CHRISTIANITY VS ATHEISISM

I received an e-mail about Gareth Cliff this morning. Very, very upsetting.

I first want to tell him, if you prefer not to be a Christian, do not make fun of those working for and with God. If you attack a child of God, it is as good as attacking God himself.

I, myself, prefer walking the path with God. I do not crusify people who do not believe in God, but I do expect them to respect my feelings.

Gareth, I can just feel sorry for you, because you have a choice between eternal life and death. I prefer the eternal life with God. Stop making fun of the Christians, and pray for forgiveness. It is not too late and our God is a forgiving God. He will always be prepared to take your hand and help you. In fact, you do not have to pray if you do not want to, we will pray for you. God is going to use you in a way that you will and cannot believe. I will ask the whole of South Africa to start praying for you. You will be the modern Paul. He went after all the Christians, and God used him. Sometimes God needs to make use of somebody like you (famous, popular and very frank about their personal view of Christianity), to show us that if He decided to use somebody, nobody will stand in His way. I hope and pray that God will take you in His arms and use you - maybe you will be the next Angus (doing the same work as Angus).

My children do have the same problem at school. After the mighty men conference, they talked about it and the atheists and gothic students did not like it. One girl even said to my daughter she must play a certain group's music (joking and making fun of our God), to irritate me and my husband. I praise God for the children that I have, telling me about this argument that they've had and been able to stood up against the other children. They (the other students - they are art students) think it is very cool to be an atheist or gothic.

I am just asking myself - where are these parents. My children are treated as outcasts because of their religion, but at least they know why. Do those parents even know that their children are on drugs, very sexual active, drinking blood, go to satanist meetings? I do not believe that. I cannot believe that any parent will allow something like that.

They told my children that they are crazy to believe in God and they just said they do not believe that they are the crazy ones. They said to them that they believe they are crazy by drinking blood.

Because of their religion, my children had a very tough time at the college, and I had to explain to them more than once that it is the devil trying to work his ways. I said to them that they must just start to pray for those people. This semester, I've seen a definite change in their attitude towards my children. Praise God for that.

Sometimes, I feel so small. I have 3 lovely daughters, not using drugs (in fact, they despise it), they believe in God and they are very good children. They talk to me and my husband with respect, are always there when we need them (we are a very close family) and they are not ashamed of showing their feelings for us. They will still hug and kiss us, whether there are other people around us or not. If they have problems, they do not hesitate to come and talk to me and their dad. They will tell us about the students using drugs, and what they are going to do about it. They even complained about it at the college, and had a lot of problems because of that, but they did the right thing and they survived it.

Some of you will ask - is this not just a mother talking? No, I am not. Although my eldest is turning 26 this year, I do not hesitate to tell her if she is doing something wrong. My children are mature, not afraid to stand up for what they believe in and their hearts are in the right place. They will do anything to help somebody in need. They will fight for justice, and will not hesitate to tell a person that he is wasting his life (using drugs etc).