To counter an Internet-based attack against the Holy Spirit, a Christian website is encouraging young believers to post to the web a video message that affirms their faith in Christ.
Recently, a group calling itself the "Rational Response Squad" launched a website asking people to post video clips on YouTube.com blaspheming the Holy Spirit. The group's website says it is "fighting to free humanity from the mind disorder known as theism." In promoting its movement, the website is giving away 1001 DVDs of the documentary The God Who Wasn't There to individuals who are successful in getting their video clip on YouTube -- provided the clip includes the phrase: "I deny the Holy Spirit." Otherwise, says the website, "You may d--- yourself to hell however you would like."
To counter that call for blasphemous video postings, Michael Mickey, a Christian from Virginia, has started a website that lets Christian teenagers make a public statement about their faith in Christ. Mickey says ChallengeBlasphemy.com allows young people to witness for Christ through one of the most popular websites.
"Blasphemy Challenge has seemed to reached a lot of young people, so our hope is we can get youth leaders and pastors ... to try to get young people [particularly] to reach out to that young audience that visits YouTube and demonstrate their faith in the Lord Jesus," explains Mickey.
Joining ChallengeBlasphemy.com in the call for online video testimonies is another website -- RaptureAlert.com. According to Mickey, the project has received widespread response, along with media attention from around the country. He believes the project can send a strong message that Christian faith among America's youth is strong -- contrary to what the Rational Response Team might want to portray.
"It's not a provocation on our part toward them," says Mickey. "We just want to present the other end of the spectrum so that young people -- well, all people -- when they go on YouTube ... can see the other end of the spectrum; that there are people of faith, people who love the Lord."
NBC affiliate WSLS in Roanoke, Virginia, recently aired a segment featuring comments from Mickey and from two area teens who produced videos testifying of their faith in Christ.
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