Inside The Atheist Mind: 5-Day DevotionalExemple

Believers have always claimed that atheism not only takes faith, but is a faith. Atheists, of course, scoff at this notion, just as they scoff at everything believers say. When it comes to rational argument, atheists will ridicule,  mock, jeer, sneer, scorn, dismiss, deride, and hide. They’ll do anything except argue rationally. That’s a pity because the assertion that atheism requires faith is a fascinating paradox that deserves discussion. When believers make that claim they mean it. They’re not being facetious in any way. They know what they’re talking about because it’s their business to know about faith. They know the difference between belief and knowledge. Atheists do not. Of course they say they do. In fact, atheists make the ridiculous claim that they have no beliefs whatsoever regarding God. They say that they merely “lack” belief in Him. In other words, they define atheism not as something positive, but rather something negative as the “absence” of belief; an absence that is due to a lack of evidence. It makes perfect sense. If you’re ignorant, shallow, and cowardly to begin with, the last thing you want to do is to defend your thinking on rational grounds. Better to avoid intellectual debate altogether and stick to what you know best, taunting, sneering, and scoffing. But they’re not going to get away with that here. If this book has shown anything at all, it’s that atheism is the furthest thing in the world from an absence of belief. Indeed, atheism is a whole system of beliefs, a system that has its own philosophy (materialism), morality (relativism), politics (social Darwinism), and culture (secularism). It even has its own sacraments (abortion, genocide, infanticide, and euthanasia). This system of beliefs has been responsible for more death, carnage, persecution, and misery than any system of beliefs the world has ever known. So, no, atheists won’t get off scot-free by calling what they so fervently believe “mere unbelief.” They can’t hold out their hands in mock innocence, feigning protest that they have nothing to prove when those same hands are dripping with blood. They are going to be held to the same intellectual standard that they claim applies to people of faith.