More often than ever I find
FaceBook posts that attack people of faith. Quite often these statements or
memes accuse people who believe in God of being responsible for most wars and
murders. To quote the most recent, “Gods
don’t kill people. People with Gods kill people.”
In logic or debate, and even in
political debate, attacks against a person are “out of bounds.” The Latin term ad hominem” means “to the person” and is
considered a fallacy that invalidates an argument. Losers resort to ad hominem statements because their
logic fails.
Ironically, atheists assert that
reason alone is valid and that Reason, in the form of Science, refutes Faith. I have not yet met or
encountered an atheist who adheres to reason to refute the existence of God or
the validity of religion.
Plato used logic, or reason, to
determine that there must be a Prime Mover that set this incomprehensible universe
into motion. Atheists today evade this issue and claim that Science will
eventually “discover” how such a Prime Mover is unnecessary. This is to say,
they resort to “Blind Faith” in Science to argue against belief in any
religion. Because Science has demonstrated some
concepts to be false that were once held to be true, it is only a matter of
time before Science proves all religious
beliefs to be false. In logic this is the equivalent of arguing that because some insects fly it is only a matter of
time that all insects will fly.
Many atheists go further by
wielding accusations of Blind Faith to attack the intelligence of those who
believe in God or attempt to practice a religion. Blind hypocrisy is the apt
term.
What raises this matter to a social
concern is this: all religions serve a social, civilizing purpose. They are
schools of morality, thus schools of moderation of human behavior. Atheists
make the absurd claim that religious moral schools “do more harm than good” for
humanity. In fact, they assert that atheism is a better moral school than
religion. By eliminating all religions, it is said, the “natural goodness” of
humankind will shine through. Experience and knowledge of this world has taught
me that the opposite is true. Observe the top and bottom “one percent” of
humanity. One side hoards material wealth while creating a world in which
30,000 children starve to death every day. The other side includes persons who
will kill for a piece of bread or a bowl of rice. In the middle are those who will
kill “to see what it feels like to take a human life.” Add in those who kill unborn human beings for
profit because they can, and because they also disbelieve in the value of human
life, or that we each have a unique soul.
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| This is considered funny by anti-Christian Pro-abortionists |
We are all witnessing the rise of
selfishness and narcissism simultaneously with antagonism against belief in a
God concept and the practice of religion. This is not accidental, nor is it a
coincidence. Atheism is another form of narcissism. But atheism is also a
religion that displaces a Prime Mover with a soulless, inanimate and
indifferent universe. Our place in this universe is then whatever we make it to
be. Many follow the religion of Oprah Winfrey, who believes that we are all our
own gods, each a god of the world we choose to create. All of us are on a short
train ride, so to say. So, why not eat other people’s lunch, figuratively, or
manipulate other riders, or be abusive if that makes us feel good for the
moment? There are no moral rules other than those made up for ourselves? When
you get down to it, this is what a moral code written by godless humans is
going to look like. We have already codified into law a large portion of this
new amoral code – and we are seeing
the results everywhere in society.
Every day more land is purchased by
corporations, squeezing living space for people into smaller and smaller areas.
Police work primarily for these corporations to protect those abundant assets
from increasingly desperate people. Scarcity is a deception. Food supplies are
more dependent upon corporate distribution and profits every year, and less on
self-sufficient home-grown production. The same is true of energy despite
abundant possibilities for free energy. Fresh water is not really scarce on
this planet, but its control by corporations increases every year, and they
make record profits by selling to us what we ought to access freely. These are
the fruits of the “moral code” derived from an incrementally more godless
world.
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| The Results of Atheism Codified in Law |
And some people believe that we’re
all going to be better off when religion is outlawed.
