Why I Am Not An Atheist
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
Bertrand Russell
Heartwarming as many atheists are, there is something spooky about believing in the power of men to change the world once reviewing the history of men in power. Especially when those who believe such a godless creed are usually busying trying to tear down all that mankind has thus far produced. But such lunacy exists. And often the results of this atheistic lunacy are permanent. But the following confession and testimony of one of the comment warriors at the always provocative Red State:
As a former leftist and atheist myself, I must confess that after having converted to Christianity, I finally realized how much faith I had to have to believe what I believed. I had to believe that life sprang from non-life, all by itself, and only happened once in history. I had to believe that mutations, normally a liability to any species, always redounded to the good concerning evolution. I had to believe that in spite of the law of entropy, wherein every system, if left to itself, goes from order to randomness, life somehow went from randomness to order.
I had to respond to this notion of perfected teleology. If I believe that while a building or a car will rot and fall apart if left uncared for, but that a gene pool will become ever more complex and advanced, yes, perhaps, I had to believe in man evolving from apes, even though there is a dearth of evidence that perhaps we did not. Despite thousands of fossils of dinosaurs, Mastodons, pre-historic mammals, curiously no conclusive “missing link” has been found. One would think that if millions of people evolved from thousands of apes, there would be ample evidence of transitional species the world over. I had to believe that the Bible is just a fabricated fairy tale, not a history, but a fabrication of men who told jokes to win the control of their populations, but while the earth is almost certainly 4.6 billion years old based on….well, no one is really sure, but it’s consensus, so it must be so, then I must be someone who interprets the Bible a bit differently than some of these whacky evangelists on the front lines. And I am. I realized that I just don’t have that much faith in science or doctrinaire fundamentalist religion.
Reading any science book, the clever can always find gaping holes in scientific secularism. I’m read Dawkins, and his type. The books sit on my shelf as I swear I don’t understand how such men make such gigantic leaps of faith while leaving out first cause and the electric buzz of the nervous system driving life [in their postulates]. The silent conspiracy festering within the scientific community resists any discussion of these gaping holes. Occasionally, an honest scientist will go rogue and admit to this conspiracy, admits to gaping holes in the official story, and offers the news that many scientists believe in God to some degree, and declares that this conspiracy of silence is coarsely enforced. Before we insist on any evolutionary strategies and tactics, we must account for the origin of life itself.
Omni Magazine 1978-1998
Imagine the excitement I felt when I read in Omni or one of those science rags of the day, that confirmed my hold held suspicions of a code of silence, terrific peer pressure, and a misty trail cover-up that sketched the science community’s penchant for ignoring the obvious flaw in their work. To surprise of these scientists there is still no conclusive data that slams the door shut on the notion of a God, a Creator, an original, unexplainable, all-powerful force that nature only emulates, but does not own, control, but cannot fathom in a universe yet not seen. only conjecture, materialistic or otherwise. In that very same issue of Omni, if memory serves, was an article announcing that scientists had just discovered that for some reason they could not yet explain, observation of an experiment seems to change it ever so measureably.
Let’s examine an example that mathematician and theoretical scientist Bertrand Russell made in his book called “Why I Am Not A Christian“, namely, little old church ladies who claim to honor God for His Power to protect his own, but are the first to hide behind the police powers, just as America the Christian nation believes in its own defense budget and weaponry more than the power of God to win the battle against godless communism and other vulgar disruptions to the peace.
Does Russell have a point? Should we not consider that since the Kingdom of God is indeed inside us, as Mashiach stipulated, then why should not the Most High speak and act among us, and not simply be there step by step to heap a load of rules and regulations upon us, only to take leave of us in times of danger…
This is an interesting point. One I’m sure C.S. Lewis has covered somewhere in his many books. My Lewis is a bit rusty, and my Lewis library a bit thin, but I would like to explore this question a bit more in another post. Is the KOG merely a protective wall, a mighty fortress where our spirit lives and dwells in the realm of thoughts and emotions as long as the physical world exists on its own terms. Or is the Kingdom Of God dwelling within us something else, something more, that is to say, something less psychological (as powerful as that function is), and something more supernatural, personal, transcendent on ALL levels, not merely the spiritual? As to whom wins or loses, sinks or swims, lives or dies in a bus crash, a fierce tornado, a heart attack, a rugby ballgame, all of which inevitably lead to the obligatory tokenism of self-aware thankfulness that one is not among the perished, the lost, the losers, leaving aside the notion of survivor guilt for the moment…
Of course, the religious fetish for turning on words, saturating themselves, with seven shades of meaning, commanding crowds with their peripetetic powers of exegesis and hermeneutics, is a sad onerous way to prove the salvation and liberty of God’s people, one and all.
—GT
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