Perfectly happy - 1 December 2009 |
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The British Humanist Association has been proclaiming its gospel in a series of adverts on the side of buses. One poster boldly assures us, ‘There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.’
However, their most recent campaign has committed something of an own-goal. It’s one that just goes to show (to the eyes of faith) that the Lord is both (a) utterly sovereign; and (b) blessed (if that’s the right word) with a great sense of humour.
The poster in question pictures two happy, bouncy kids, and declares, ‘Please don’t label me. Let me grow up and choose for myself.’ Presumably this is intended as a blow against the tendency of Christian parents to bring their kids up to worship the one living and true God rather than to bow before the idolatrous false deity of humanism.
Unfortunately (for the BHA), the two (happy, bouncy, smiling) kids they picked ‘just happened’ to be the children of Brad Mason, a Christian who plays drums for the well-known Christian rock musician Noel Richards.
Oops.
It’s like this: Ruth ‘just happened’ to find herself in Boaz’s field (Ruth 2:3); David ‘just happened’ to see a woman bathing (1 Samuel 11:2); an arrow fired at random ‘just happened’ to find the chink in the armour of the King of Israel (1 Kings 22:34); and the two kids chosen by the BHA to demonstrate how happy we can all be without God ‘just happened’ to be perfectly happy with him.
Posted by Steve Jeffery · Topics: Current affairs, Minister's Blog