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:
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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:
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"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.
