MATERIALISM/ ATHEISM/ NATURALISM - PLAYING MAKE-BELIEVE

We judge a worldview as we do a roadmap, by its correspondence with reality. If it doesn’t correspond, then it fails to serve as a reliable roadmap for our lives. Consequently, it will not take us where we need to go. Therefore, we ask, “Is it livable or does it force us to live out a fairy tale?
 
·    In a materialistic/deterministic/atheistic universe, there is no room for freewill. Therefore, the materialist must make-believe that he has the freewill to make freewill choices.

·    The materialist makes moral judgments but lacks an objective standard to make objective moral judgments. Therefore, he plays make-believe.

·    The materialist wants to believe that love has meaning and purpose in his materialistic world, but if these are no more than biochemical reactions, he again must play make-believe that there is something transcendent about his feelings, even worth dying for.

·    He wants to live according to his conscience, but if the conscience is no more than material, biochemical reactions, why bother! He can only justify virtue when it yields good result, but sometimes we pay a great price for virtue.

·    He claims that we do not have to believe in God to be good. However, he doesn’t believe that the “good” is anything more than an evolving social convention. So he makes believe.

·    He wants to believe in human equality and the equality of all under the law. However, the materialist is unable to make a case for equality, since materialistically, there is no equality, and we are all different. Therefore, he has no choice but to play make-believe.

·    He wants to hold to human primacy over the mosquito and the COVID virus. However, the materialist lacks any coherent basis to value man over the mosquito. Again, he plays make-believe.

·    He knows that humanity must distinguish justice from injustice. However, for the materialist, these entities do not exist in his “uncaring, meaningless, and evolving materialistic universe.” Therefore, he makes believe that they do exist.

·    He talks about human rights as if they objectively exist but has no basis to believe that they exist anymore than mosquito rights. Therefore, he makes-believe that they do exist.

·    His psychology craves for meaning and purpose, which are non-existent in a materialistic meaningless world. He might create them for himself based on his feelings and desires, but he doesn’t fully realize that He is playing make-believe. Yet he must believe in something!