No matter where you are on the spiritual spectrum, here’s something I hope we can all agree on:
If God exists, he is the most important thing in the universe. He is the reason for our existence and the meaning of life.
It’s astonishing how few people—even among those who claim to believe in God—ever arrive at a conscious awareness of this. To fail to grasp this one most important fact is to miss life’s only possible purpose.
Here’s another statement that will provoke far less agreement:
If God doesn’t exist, then the word “important” has no definition; there is no reason or meaning in anything.
The physical universe can provide only one kind of cause for any event: Physical force. The only answer the universe has for why a thing happened is, “It was entirely forced by prior physical events.”
Physics has no category for “importance” or “meaning,” and therefore no possibility of producing rational thought. But consider that those who claim that nothing exists except the physical universe also generally believe they arrived at that conclusion because of their relentless commitment to rational thought. This is a contradiction, and atheists engage in many such irrationalities.
We will see in future posts that when we challenge the assumptions upon which atheism rests, we find it is not the enlightened singularity of rationality we’ve been told it is. In fact, when we shine the cold light of reason onto atheistic assumptions, we find atheism is really an irrational jumble of personal preferences, a circus of logical errors and omissions. As we’ll see, atheism is not merely wrong, not merely unscientific, it’s actually stupid.
Atheism is intellectually indefensible. If God doesn’t exist, then nothing ultimately matters, including the fact that he doesn’t exist. The various religions of the world could be absurdities if their underlying facts are false, but atheism is an absurdity by definition because it contradicts itself. It leaves no possibility of significance or valid motives. And yet, atheists regularly overlook this, asserting that it is important to believe in this system in which nothing can be important. The very act of arguing that atheism is true requires a belief in significance that atheism denies.
You cannot defend atheism without contradicting atheism.
