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"Last Words From Dying Atheists"

1. Caesar Borgia: --- "While I lived, I provided for everything but death; now I must die, and am unprepared to die."

2. Thomas Hobbs: --- "I say again, if I had the whole world at my disposal, I would give it to live one day. I am about to take a leap into the dark."

3. Edward Gibbon: --- "All is lost, finally, irrevocable lost. All is dark and doubtful."

4. Thomas Payne: --- "Stay with me, for God's sake; I cannot bear to be left alone...O Lord, help me! O God, what have I done to suffer so much? What will become of me hereafter?"

5. Honore Gabriel Raqueti Mirabeau: --- "Give me more laudanum (mixture containing opium, JJ) that I may not think of eternity and what is to come."

6. Sir Thomas Scott: --- "Until this moment I thought there was neither a God nor a hell. Now I know and feel that there are both, and I am doomed to perdition by the just judgment of the Almighty."

7. Voltaire: --- "I am abandoned by God and man; I will give you half of what I am worth if you will give me six months' life." (He said this to Dr. Fochin, who told him it could not be done.) "Then I shall die and go to hell!"

8. Sir Francis Newport: --- "Oh, the insufferable pangs of hell! Oh, eternity forever and forever!"

9. Robert Ingersoll: --- "O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul!" (Some say it was this way: "Oh God, if there be a God, save my soul if I have a soul, from hell, if there be a hell!")

10. Charles Churchill: --- "What a fool I have been!"

11. In the 1800's, a well-known atheist was riding with Alexander Campbell in a buckboard. As usual, they were discussing atheism. Campbell's visitor pointed to an ox grazing in the nearly field, and said: "I have no more fear of death than that ox." To which Campbell replied: "And no more hope, either." Some years later at the funeral of the atheist, Campbell was talking with a mutual friend. This one commented: "There is no one as hard to get along with than an old atheist."

Some Final Thoughts:

The above was anonymously written, but as I thought about these men, and their cries of despair as they faced eternity; I could not help but think of the following people and contrast their attitude toward death with the attitude of the atheists above. Please consider .....

Stephen: "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.... And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep" (Acts 7:56-60).

The apostle Paul: "For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing" (II Tim. 4:6-8).

- Jarrod Jacobs

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