You Believe!
You believe in something or someone. If you are capable of thinking at all, then you have a belief system that you depend on to help guide your decisions in life. I, for instance, have faith in God and with that faith I have a moral compass and a foundation for my decisions in life. I believe the Bible is inspired, true and dependable as a message from the Creator of the Universe.
One gets weary of hearing atheists and agnostics claim that they “just don’t believe.” Many atheists will tell you that they aren’t religious. Baloney! Just as Muslims and Buddhists have a religion so do atheists and agnostics. Atheists believe in the absence of God and put their faith in that concept. Agnostics put their faith in the idea that God is unknowable or that the existence of God doesn’t matter. They both have faith that my faith is unreliable.
Yes, you have a religion. Your god may be yourself, or the concept of the Superman, or money, or Satan, or your girlfriend….but something or someone is on the throne of your life and if it isn’t Jesus Christ then someone else is there. Plenty of people simply worship themselves and the desire to have as much pleasure as they can over the course of their lives.
The problem with atheists in particular is that they cannot abide believers in God. God represents responsibility. God represents accountability. Atheists wish to be accountable solely to themselves. Many of those behind the idea of “separation of church and state” really want separation of church FROM state because they don’t even wish to be reminded of the concept of a Creator to whom they might owe their existence. For this reason atheists tend to be very ardent Darwinists because they need another explanation for their being, one that involves no Higher Power to bring man into existence.
This article prompted my post:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2006/0123root_dawkins.asp
Go and see what you think…
Mere Orthodoxy Wants to discuss Heaven.
One gets weary of hearing atheists and agnostics claim that they “just don’t believe.” Many atheists will tell you that they aren’t religious. Baloney! Just as Muslims and Buddhists have a religion so do atheists and agnostics. Atheists believe in the absence of God and put their faith in that concept. Agnostics put their faith in the idea that God is unknowable or that the existence of God doesn’t matter. They both have faith that my faith is unreliable.
Yes, you have a religion. Your god may be yourself, or the concept of the Superman, or money, or Satan, or your girlfriend….but something or someone is on the throne of your life and if it isn’t Jesus Christ then someone else is there. Plenty of people simply worship themselves and the desire to have as much pleasure as they can over the course of their lives.
The problem with atheists in particular is that they cannot abide believers in God. God represents responsibility. God represents accountability. Atheists wish to be accountable solely to themselves. Many of those behind the idea of “separation of church and state” really want separation of church FROM state because they don’t even wish to be reminded of the concept of a Creator to whom they might owe their existence. For this reason atheists tend to be very ardent Darwinists because they need another explanation for their being, one that involves no Higher Power to bring man into existence.
This article prompted my post:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2006/0123root_dawkins.asp
Go and see what you think…
Mere Orthodoxy Wants to discuss Heaven.