The Darkened Mind of Atheism
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Facebook, November 20, 2009
By Bud Powell
Rising? or
Setting?
If
deep in his heart the a-theist really believed that God does not exist, why
would he give a rip what I or anyone else thinks? The a-theist lives by denial.
Without the denial he is nothing, for he stands aloof as an observer of what he
considers all the folly in the world. If there is no God, there is no truth to
contend over for we are all locked into our own minds. Everything is subjective
and discourse is impossible. Religious discussion is worse than futile. He is
arguing about nothing, for his life is denial. He is like a man trying to
explain the mess in the room while ignoring the presence of the elephant. 'Hm, I wonder why the chairs are broken, there is crap on
the floor, and the walls have holes in them. Hm....."
A-theism starts with the presupposition that nothing is known about God or can
be known. It is all unproved. That presupposition means that the atheist has to
know everything that everybody knows, for how could he
know what everybody doesn't know if he doesn't know what everybody knows. He
professes to believe that there is no proof for God's existence. He then seeks
to show that everybody in the world who believes in God is deceived and lying
about it. What a great leap of faith this is into the minds of every believer,
without one shred of evidence that he, the a-theist, is even certain of the
validity of his own thought. Some of them even claim to have once been certain
of the truth of God, but now that certainty is uncertainty, and give no
evidence that their present certainty will not change to something else
tomorrow. But we are supposed to follow them in this arrant folly.
To be consistent, then, the a-theist has to deny the validity of his
consciousness of my consciousness, for all that he
knows is what he claims to know in his own mind. So why does he care what I
think? But a-theists really, really do care what I think, for I get this stuff
all the time. A-theists are obsessed with God and want to argue incessantly
with Christians. If God really didn't exist they wouldn't be so angry. They want
me to be as angry as they are, but why do they care? They wouldn't know I was
angry if I were angry, which I am not. How do they know I am angry.
Is it because I speak plainly? Plain speech might be evidence of love, not
anger.
When I challenge them about why they care, they retreat into a discussion of
their high morality, which makes them love the truth. But they cannot give any
defense of what is truth, because it is only what they think is truth, for they
retreat into the castle of their own conscience. "My
morality..." which is vaporous, for they have already admitted to changing
their morality when they left the theism of the mothers and fathers. Jer 2:13 "For my people have committed two evils; they
have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns,
broken cisterns, that can hold no water."
But they do not have the high moral ground because the most fragile thing to
hang morality on is the reason that does not believe in God. Ted Bundy admitted
that he began on his string of murders and rapes because he had abandoned his
faith in God. Some atheist blame religion for human atrocities; forgetting that
the greatest atrocities in recent human history were committed by atheistic
systems: communism, National Socialism, fascism. There is very little
self-conscious Christianity in the movers and shakers even in the Western world
today, but those in high places spout the same intellectual garbage about
Christianity and religion that I get from my a-theistic opponents. It is even poured
out by prominent preachers and agnostic [ignorant] professors and philosophers.
Most of my young a-theist opponents didn't figure this stuff out by
themselves--no they were programmed in philosophy 101, literature 101, or
political science 101, or comparative religion 101 by aging ex-hippies of the
sixties who are reliving the glories of the days of poppies, pot, sodomy, and
free fornication. But God doesn't go away because you don't believe in Him.
It is also true that the war most a-theist are having is the war in their own souls. Many of them have departed from the faith
of their mothers and fathers, their grandparents, their siblings. There is
turmoil within their own souls and they are angry about it. Because cannot find
the God they hate, they take out their venom on the relatives and friends,
blaming them for their own misery. Like Saul, they breathe out threatenings and slaughters because they are kicking
against the prickings of their own consciences.
Isa 57:20 "But the wicked are like the troubled sea,
when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt."
I say that I know the true and living God. That really ticks them off. But if I
were to deny it, I would be a liar. John 17:3. They then call me arrogant, so
now there are two things that they know about me: that I don't know God and
that I am arrogant. But how can they know that I am arrogant, if they only know
their own mind, and why does it matter what an insignificant bit of matter
thinks, if it does indeed think? They would have to know what I know in order
to know that I am arrogant. I didn't tell them I am arrogant; do they sit in
the counsel of the Most High and know what only God knows?
What if I am telling the truth? Then I would know God and I would not be
arrogant. But they cannot know that for they deny such knowledge. To admit the
knowledge of what somebody else knows would be to confess their own blindness.
But they claim to know what everybody knows when they say that there is no
proof of the existence of God. They just arbitrarily assign the arrogance to me
and to other Christians because they hate God and the very idea of God. It
obsesses them. They realize that if just one person somewhere knew God, their
folly is exposed. So they cannot admit that. They are trapped in their own
arrogance. All men are fools except atheists, they think.
The fact that they are not convinced does not mean the argument is not valid.
The sun shines even if the blind man cannot see it. The elephant in the room
does not disappear when you close your eyes.
There is another factor: if the God of the Bible exists then the following
would have to be true:
"But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 4 In whom the
god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the
light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine
unto them." --2Cor 4:3,4
God would not allow men to pretend that He did not exist, but there would be
spiritual consequences to such denial, a darkening of the mind would ensue, for
first judgments are always spiritual judgments, for God is a Spirit.
Would the a-theist admit the darkness of his mind? Of course not, for he
wouldn't even be aware of it. Instead, he would be puffed up with pride and
exhilaration of his own "light." To admit it would be to invalidate
his argument. He only knows what is in his own mind so how would he know his
mind was dark? This first clue would be to not understand how he thought
before. The mind wouldn't expose its own darkness, unless it were
a darkness that fills everybody else's mind. That is what the a-theist contends
for, the darkening of everybody's mind. He is forced to admit his own
ignorance, but only if everyone else admits to be as ignorant as he is. It is a
bottomless pit.
2Co 10:12 "For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare
ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by
themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise."
"If the light that is in you be darkness, how great is that
darkness."
Will this convince? Of course not, for the problem does not
lie in the intellect. The issues of life arise from the heart, the
religious core of man. If the measure by which you
measure lies to you, how will you measure anything. If the weights in the bag
are false, who can defend the report of the balances?
Proverbs 11:31-12:1 "The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out. 32 The lips of the
righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness. 1 A false
balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight."
