Maybe it’s just me. But it seems like there are more atheists - TopicsExpress



          

Maybe it’s just me. But it seems like there are more atheists today than there used to be. I’m not one of them. Here are some reasons why. “God does not play dice with the universe.” Albert Einstein #1 Not convincing. By definition an atheist is someone who is convinced there is no god out there anywhere. Scientists do not even know yet what is at the bottom of our own deepest oceans on our own planet, Earth. How can anyone be sure that there is no god anywhere in the entire universe? We are not that smart. #2. None inspire me. I don’t know any atheists who make me say, “Yeah, I want to be like that.” Atheism doesn’t energize me. #3. Bad reputation. There are too many vile atheists in history for me. What do mass killers Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-tung and Pol Pot (to mention a few) have in common? None of them believed in God. Atheism seems to be a green light for dictators to kill large numbers of innocent people. I know. Religious people can also be scoundrels, but they have a long way to go before they catch up with the killer atheists of history. #4. Too much hypocrisy. Atheists talk about God more than anyone. One day they don’t believe God exists, the next they cuss him out because they think he is unfair and mean. They can’t have it both ways. It is inconsistent to be angry with someone who you don’t believe exists. #5. Explosion skeptic. The big bang theory doesn’t move me. I have never experienced an explosion that created anything, ever. The world is a little too complex for me to believe a random explosion started it all. Faith in God makes more sense to me than faith in explosions. That’s aside from the fact that something has to be there to blow in the first place. How did that something get there? #6. Evolution doesn’t explain creation. Even if you believe all life evolved from a single organism, that doesn’t explain how the original organism got there. Not to mention we never found the millions of transitional fossils that Darwin predicted. #7. Too many people I admire believed in God. Here’s the short list: George Washington, Mother Teresa, Albert Einstein, Sir Isaac Newton, Nicholas Copernicus, Galileo, Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln, Albert Schweitzer and…Elvis (actually, I’m not a big Elvis fan but I included him anyway). #8. A little too convenient. It would be simple for atheists to make up the rules as they go along...there is nothing to be accountable unto, to feel responsible for their actions. They can make their own rules. They can do whatever they want no matter who gets hurt, or how they feel the community around them deserves to be treated. Honestly, flying by the seat of your shorts. You begin to ask yourself, why? Even as a Christian we are called to defend our faith and question its integral meaning... Why is there a legal jurisprudence based off biblical constructs, how on earth can we reason with the blackness of space, or whom is the maker of the universe? Why do we have social consciousness of love, and caring for humans in the ideal form, and not a war mongering spirit? Do we really feel that the end of our lives are NOTHING? Or are we made for a GREATER purpose? In short, please be respectful of Christians, of course, realizing that Christians do Proselytize just as much as agnostic or atheists do, it can be annoying all the way around. I have seen both atheists and Christians whom I know to be rude and not furthering the cause. Maybe I just know the wrong ones. Yet, no one can definitively prove their point in the realm of science or logic, so it really upends and also strengthens our positional faith. Really, is this it? On a personal note, I’m not attracted to the idea that this world is all there is. And without God it makes no sense to live and die, and for life to be truly meaningful to come to a satisfying conclusion. Is this a delusion or a aggrandized ideology? No, it is a awesome journey that everyone is taking and we will just have to find out. One thing is for sure, if you ever have read Pascals Wager....it is quite a bit convincing. I am a rather scientific person, and enjoy wagering odds to make effective decisions. I find that you really cannot go wrong with believing, rather than loosing it all at death. BONUS: That little resurrection problem. Much to the dismay of the Roman government, the resurrection of Jesus catapulted Christianity to prominence in the first century. The Romans could have stopped the whole movement in its tracks by producing the body of Jesus or a reasonable explanation to debunk His resurrection. They were incapable of doing either. Hmmm.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 21:19:52 +0000

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