Monday, December 6, 2021

THE RELIGION OF ATHEISM

 


 

Why are there atheists? There is no evidence that there isn’t a God. Why then do atheists staunchly defend their atheistic identity? Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, admitted that the belief in “no god” freed him to live the way he desired:
 
·       I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; consequently I assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption . . . For myself, as no doubt for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of 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.
 
Huxley chose the religion of “liberation” and meaninglessness. But does denial lead to liberation? The Polish poet, Czeslaw Milosz, confessed that the atheistic religion offered another form of freedom:
 
·       "a true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death—the huge solace of thinking that our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders are not going to be judged."
 
Atheism provides “liberation” from the fear of judgment. As such, it is a religion which requires a constant vigilance against our accusing conscience, which testifies otherwise. Consequently, this religion does not bring peace. Instead, it pits the atheist against himself in an exhausting battle to suppress the obvious.
 
In contrast, it is the love of Jesus that has enabled me to accept my unworthy self because He does! I am now at peace. The battle has ceased.

 

2 comments:

vel said...

Atheism isn't a religion. It's a conclusion based on a lack of evidence. You, dear Christian, are an atheist too, daring to disbelieve in all sorts of gods.

There is no judgement of anything in the afterlife; that all happens in this life. That Christians can't agree on what their god considers a "sin" indicates that there is no judgment and no god.

As for your god being "obvious", funny how every theist makes that claim, but can't convince the next theist his version is the right one. Now, why is that?

Daniel Mann said...

Having just One God is enough!

Atheism's denial of God and/or evidence for God is enough to make it qualify as a religion. However, there are also many other beliefs associated with atheists - naturalism, materialism, secular humanism, evolution, and moral relativism.