Christians - here is an
unambiguous, no-catch, 100%, concrete way to prove the
existence of your divine being. A way for you to prove
without any doubt whatsoever that your God, the Christian
God of the Bible, does in fact exist.
If we examine the
Christian Holy Bible we discover that a listening God
answers prayer and that even the smallest amount of faith
can move mountains. Here is my proposition - Pray for me.
Pray for me to 'come to God'. Pray for me to accept Jesus.
Get your friends to join in, start a prayer crusade for
my soul. If you go to church, tell the priest and get him
to ask the whole congregation to pray for me. If you are
a Christian head-teacher of a Christian school ask the
whole school to pray for me at assembly every morning for
a week. Post as many notes as you can on your favourite
Christian websites to help propagate the cause, or email
all your Christian compatriots and ask them to join in.
Flood Christian messageboards and newsgroups.Write a
special prayer and publish it. Spread the word, Martin J
Burn - The English Atheist - is prepared to be changed,
by the power of prayer and the power of God, into a good
God fearing Christian. There is no need to know where I
live in order to aim your prayers, since the Christian
God knows everything - God will know who and where I am.
Let me know via email if you are praying for me and I will publish
your name on this page so that 
other Christians can pool their prayer resources
with yours.
So get praying. Pray to
God with all your heart. Ask God to save my soul for all
eternity. Beg for me to be forgiven and accept The Holy
Word. Ask God to affirm your faith with this small sign
of religious conversion. Pray to God to appear personally
to 'The English Atheist' in a dream or plead for the
appearance of an angel messenger of God's good ministry.
I will even have a go at praying myself, for myself, if
any Christians out there would email me with some
instructions on how to pray properly. I will go about my
business in my normal fashion, but waiting for something
to happen, and if I become a Christian by divine
intervention I will publish the results on this page,
renounce Atheism, start up a Christian website, remove
forever 'The English Atheist' and work to bring others
into the Christian faith.
Should nothing happen, all
that I ask is that any Christians who have prayed for me
will pray for me again but redouble their efforts.
And should nothing happen again, please do your best to
try even harder once more.
I will wait to be
converted, maybe a week, maybe a month, maybe more. And
at the end of that undefined period I will publish the
result on this page. 
Finally I will request of anyone who
prays for me that should I not 'come to God' that they
take five minutes out to examine exactly what has not
happened. That is all. Five minutes to examine the
mechanics and power of prayer, the power of faith and the
existence and divine abilities of your God.
The details below show the progress of my
conversion:
Christians who
are praying for me (including those who wish
to remain anonymous, but not those who don't
want to be on the list).
NAME
|
LOCATION
|
Kim Furey
|
Vancouver
Island
|
A.N. On
|
?
|
A.N.Other
|
?
|
Hugh Saunders
|
England
|
Some Others (several)
|
?
|
S. Kszystyniak
|
England
|
Tim
|
USA?
|
Some more
|
Various
|
Spanner (don't ask)
|
UK
|
The English
Atheist to Christianity charts of conversion
DATE
|
STATUS
|
Level
of belief (Scale 0-10)
|
Friday
December 8th
|
Still an Atheist |
0 |
Saturday December 9th
|
Still an Atheist
|
0
|
Sunday December 10th
|
Still an Atheist
|
0
|
Monday December 11th
|
Still an Atheist
|
0
|
Tuesday December 12th
|
Still an Atheist
|
0
|
THE
RESULT
This
experiment has been cancelled due to my non-conversion
to Christianity. Prayer does not work. QED.
"And
Jesus said unto them, Because of your
unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye
have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye
shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to
yonder place; and it shall remove; and
nothing shall be impossible unto you." -
Matthew 17:20
|
"And all
things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer,
believing, ye shall receive." - Jesus -
Matthew 21:22
|
The parable of the four news
hacks
Imagine this:
A newspaper editor
receives four accounts of a previously unreported,
unsubstantiated event. The events described are many
years old, yet seem to be newsworthy. Each report has
been submitted by a news hack whom nobody has ever heard
of. The reporters are mature men all of which know each
other and have done for at least the thirty years of
their reporting careers. There are irreconcilable
differences between each of the four reports, indeed one
of the reports contains a factual impossibility. The
editor commissions an independent check of the reported
events but nothing turns up, he attempts to contact the
four reporters but they appear to be 'non-persons' and
are not known by anyone, nevertheless our newspaper
editor decides to publish in his next edition. The editor
invents some names for the reporters to add some
credulity. On the next day, all over the land, the
newspaper is read fervently. Oddly, a great many of the
readers believe each of the four news items are a factual
record of what happened, despite the evidence to the
contrary in front of their own eyes. Readers of most of
the foreign editions dismiss the four reports immediately.
A few weeks later on a TV
chat program someone points out all the problems with the
four news items. He has made a chart showing all the
problems and differences contained within the reports,
the lines on the chart go in four different directions,
yet his opposition on the program refuse to alter their
opinion. They argue that since the reports were printed
in The Daily Blurb they must be factual and that each
report is a concise, unambiguous report of the events.
When questioned further they answer in the same fashion
as politicians - they don't actually answer the question
- and on some points go as far as inventing new 'facts'
to bolster their argument.
Later on in the evening,
on 'The Jerry Springer Show', readers of The Daily Blurb
and readers of a foreign newspaper are seen to argue the
veracity of their respective newsprint in the the normal
fashion. Normal, that is, for 'The Jerry Springer Show'.