Oxymorons and Atheism

Rational atheism; Common Sense Atheism. These are just two of several contradictory terms that atheists use to begin their posts. I told an atheist, not long ago that atheism is illogical, inaccurate, incoherent and absurd. She turned this around and said the same about Christianity. Point made, in my mind. Most atheists have simply not thought through the implications of what they say they believe.

Christianity - the philosophy preaches purpose and gives purpose

Christianity - the philosophy preaches meaning and gives meaning

Christianity - the philosophy preaches context and our lives are lived within that context

Christianity - the philosophy preaches justice, rewards and punishment. In the end the good will be rewarded and the guilty will be justly punished.

In atheism, life has no meaning, no context, no purpose and no ultimate justice.

Atheists try to tell themselves that their lives have meaning and context and purpose but IF life, the universe and everything are in fact an accident, then ultimate meaning and context and purpose are absent from all of our lives.

Christianity allows us to accept who we are - fundamentally flawed individuals. The state of the world proves this to be true.

Atheists are forced to deny who we really are, that we are in fact basically “good” people. The state of the world refutes that claim. Atheists, by and large buy into the delusion that every day and in every way we are getting better and better.

All we need is more education - Proven Wrong.

All we need is more wealth - Proven Wrong.

All we need is more freedom - Proven Wrong.

All we need is more tolerance - Proven Wrong.

Everything that the secular world has proposed for the salvation of human kind has proven useless in the face of reality. The last Darwinist government believed that getting rid of Jews, homosexuals and gypsies was the solution to our problems. Wrong. The next demand of atheists will be, All we need is to rid the world of religious people. That too will be wrong.

Even though being wronged by others shows to the atheist that objective right / wrongs, morals, values and duties exist, atheists are forced to deny their existence.

Even though the fine tuning of the universe gives far more than just the appearance of order and design, atheists are forced to deny this design

Even though science shows that everything cannot come from nothing by natural means, atheists are forced to deny science, the very god that they worship.

Even though atheists preach, “I don’t need God in order to be good,” their lives show this to be false; they don’t even live up to their own moral code, let alone God’s

"Atheists tell us they live lives of purpose and joy without God or religion.

Atheists tell us they don’t need faith; they have reason!

Atheists tell us they never believe sincerely with one part of their mind something that another part of their mind knows is actually false.

Atheists tell us they find happiness in holidays like Easter and Christmas, because even though they know there is no God to celebrate, they are with family and that is what really counts.

Atheists tell us they never want to go to church, or take communion, or pray for the broken of the world."

On atheism they are wrong - wrong - wrong - wrong - wrong - wrong.

If atheism is correct “You are the descendant of a tiny cell of primordial protoplasm washed up on an empty beach three and a half billion years ago. You are the blind and arbitrary product of time, chance, and natural forces. You are a mere grab-bag of atomic particles, and conglomeration of genetic substance. You exist on a tiny planet in a minute solar system in an empty corner of a meaningless universe. You are a purely biological entity, different only in degree but not in kind from a microbe, virus, or amoeba. You have no essence beyond your body, and at death you will cease to exist entirely. In short, you came from nothing and are going to nowhere” Randy Alcorn.

In atheism there is no reason for your existence. All you face is death. The person you call “Myself” will cease to exist and that will be the end of it. You will be no more.

If you are happy, then you are not living consistent with the atheist world-view. If you are a consistent atheist then you have no reason to be happy. Your life is absurd, pitiful, a waste of time and money. It really doesn’t matter if you’ve existed at all. So what if you’ve helped one person or a million people? In a hundred years they’ll all be dead. Did you make a lot of money? So what? Someone else is going to get it. Did you have a lot of fun? Big deal. You probably used and abused people in the process.

In fact, on atheism, the whole universe is a waste. Sooner or later everything that exists now will not exist, not even the universe itself.

Nothing lasting.
Nothing of value.
Nothing of purpose.
All dead.
All dead.

The same blind cosmic process that began it all will one day end it all. So what if a scientist says, “Here is why this happens.” Everything that discovery affects today will be gone tomorrow. In the end these discoveries don’t make one bit of difference.

On atheism our lives are meaningless, our activities are meaningless our discoveries are meaningless and without significance. Suppose science discovers something that allows you to live twenty, fifty a thousand years longer. So what?

On atheism you still die and disappear from memory. Sartre, Camus, Neitzsche, Monod, all knew the truth - on atheism “Man is alone in the indifferent immensity of the universe.”

On atheism life has no objective value. In a secular world if you say you have one unit of worth and your neighbour says you have no worth, your neighbour is just as correct as you are. As many an atheist has told me, there is no right or wrong. No good or bad. No correct or incorrect behaviour.

On atheism rape is simply someone thumbing his nose at social convention.

On atheism right and wrong or merely the ebb and flow of human desire, taste and subjective judgment.

On atheism there is no ultimate goal to life. Our lives are lived for nothing of ultimate purpose.

Death of the individual,

Death of humanity,

Death of the universe.

On atheism, that’s all that awaits everyone of us.

And yet, in order to survive this grim atheist “reality” humanists steal from Christianity meaning and context and purpose. Many try to avoid the advice of their elder atheists who tell them to build lives “upon the firm foundation of unyielding despair,” Russel. Modern atheists live totally inconsistent and absurd lives for the meaning and values they purport to hold dear have no reality in the absence of Creator God. Without eternity, all is without ultimate value. An atheist may say at this point, “Well I’ll create my own meaning in life.” And I’ll reply, “Go right ahead. Just be aware that you’re taking that meaning from a universe that has a Creator. For without God there is no objective meaning to life.” Or what if your neighbour says that your meaning is wrong and his is right and further that he can’t achieve his meaning without eliminating you and your meaning?

In the absurdity of the atheist world-view, there is no way around this scenario.
The fact is, if God does not exist, then life has no objective meaning. If life has no objective meaning we, as humans cannot live happy and joyous lives. Therefore atheists are forced to pretend their lives have meaning and that is inconsistent, illogical, incoherent and absurd.