Posted by
Greg England on Saturday, August 11, 2007 10:50:17 AM
There’s an increasingly aggressive atheist movement growing that has had enough. Get religion OUT of my public sphere, they say. http://outcampaign.org/. The internet has provided them with a blogosphere all of their own, where they can exchange ideas and insult believers. These people are on the march! What should we do to stop them? Well ... nothing!
I support the right of any individual to hold an atheist worldview provided that they enter into a reciprocal arrangement and support my right to hold an alternative worldview (i.e. Christian)
Ay, there’s the rub.
You see, some atheists don’t believe that they have a worldview. As far as they are they are concerned, religion is a virally transmitted mental disease, and they see it as their God given duty (wait, that can’t be right ...) to cure us of belief.
But Mr. Greg England, the theory of evolution is scientifically proven. You religious people, with your magic man in the sky, and tyrannical God ... blah, blah, blah. You believe that the world was created in six days, and Adam and Eve and the snake ...
Look it’s really simple. You need to face facts. None of us really knows anything. When we first appear in this world, we can’t find our a$$ with our hands. The scientific method allows us to create a cogent model of the physical processes that govern this universe, and hand this knowledge down to future generations. But that’s all it does.
In 1,000 years that’s still all it will be doing. Atheist philosophers like Sartre at least had the decency to admit that life was absurd. But you are in denial. You genuinely believe that the only reason why you don’t understand everything is because a few pieces of the jigsaw are missing, and once you find those pieces ... then what? What exactly will you understand?
I’ll tell you what you WON’T understand. You will still believe that you have a blank cheque to go around bullying decent, hardworking, ordinary people just because they share a different worldview than you! You will still believe that you are somehow superior to the rest of the human race. If only everyone gave up religion, then everything would be okay. How naive are you?
Do you honestly think that we are that simple that we don’t appreciate how absurd the Bible appears to be?
Of course it’s absurd. It’s not meant to be a scientific text; it’s not even a work of metaphysics. It’s full of contradictions, and clauses that leave us all scratching our heads. The New Testament is the story of some Jewish bloke who claims he’s God, gets nailed to a tree, and God can’t even organise a single documentary account of the whole affair (instead we have to pick our way through Matthew, Mark, Luke and John).
What about Cain’s fears of being beaten up when he walks the earth: “Behold, thou has driven me out this day from the face of the earth: and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.” Who will slay you? Abel ... he’s dead. There’s always Mum and Dad, but unless they are living separate lives ... there isn’t anyone else.
The reason why I put my faith in Christ has nothing to do with reason.
But you could never, ever understand that, you don't even want to.