Atheists and Katrina

Gary Demar of American Vision reports that "The American Atheists organization says President Bush should stop urging prayer for Hurricane Katrina victims because it violates the Constitution."

As Demar notes, why should an atheist even care about Hurricane Katrina? Given their naturalistic worldview, humans are just glorified one-cell amoebas whose intrinsic value is equal to the cows we slaughter every day for Burger King.

The fact that the church is leading the way in regards to relief effort saliently demonstrates two things:

1. That the government is no match for faith-based outreaches.

2. That those with a Christian worldview have both the motivation and the intellectual capital to alleviate human suffering better than others because of their view on the sanctity of human life.