WHY ARE THERE ATHEISTS

Even atheists are compelled to admit that there are no good arguments against the existence of God. Why then are there atheists? And why do they define themselves negatively, as those against the existence of God? It’s a matter of desire prevailing over evidence.

Atheist Aldous Huxley refreshingly confided:

• "I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently, assumed it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find reasons for this assumption.... For myself, as no doubt for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain political and economic system and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom." (Ends and Means, 1937, pp. 270, 273, emp. added).

We find that as sexual norms are struck down, so too is the belief in the God who established them.