Posted by
Jay Noble on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 11:27:52 AM
Yesterday Fox News in the morning featured a "debate" between Christopher Hitchens, outspoken atheist, and a minister whose name I cannot recall. I put debate in quotes because while Hitchens was his usual self, blaming belief in God for all the ills of mankind, the minister did not seem to put up much of a rebuttal, at least in my opinion. As I thought more about the segment through the day I couldn't help thinking that atheism seems uniquely a position of the intellectual class. How many poor folks or high school dropouts do you see declaiming that God doesn't exist and faith is a delusion?
Atheism is mankinds' ultimate conceit and requires a peculiar type of hubris. Implicit in atheism is a belief in human omniscience, for one can deny the existence of God only if one believes he possesses total knowledge. Far from being evidence of a rational, realistic mind, atheism constitutes the ultimate closing of the mind. For the atheist the case is closed and no evidence is valid to the contrary. In this respect the atheist bears a great resemblance to believers in climate change, a.k.a. global warming. Though he believes himself to be the smartest people in the room, in fact the atheist is the apotheosis of ignorance, the summit of man's rebellion against God.
Man cannot reason away or wish away God, or take His place in the universe. The only delusion regarding the existence of God is in the mind of the atheist.