On Atheists And Atheism
Posted by: tony on 09/20/2007 10:51 PM
Updated by: tony on 09/20/2007 10:51 PM
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Expires: 10/21/2007 12:00 AM
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I enjoy reading the Curt Jester (I enjoy reading him more now that he's providing a full syndicated feed. ;)) His quote with regards to atheists is right on target.
I find it ironically funny that now as a believer I have more freedom than an atheist has when it comes to miracles. I can choose to either believe or disbelieve that a miracle has occurred based on the facts of the case. An atheist is obliged to disbelieve them and not to honestly look at the facts of an individual case. Their "dogmatic" position only allows them to look at any facts so as to disprove them and of course the idea of an "open mind" goes out the window. If a specific miracle is disproved it does nothing to change my faith, whereas if a specific miracle is proved - an atheist will have problems with an atheists faith.
Many atheists will tell me "there's no such thing as atheist faith". This is patently untrue. It takes a heck of a lot of faith to believe that everything appeared out of nothing after some sort of "big bang", then planets formed, and one formed that was just right for life to begin. So an electrical storm zapped some primordial soup and voila, Christopher Hitchens appears!
An atheist is an appliance repairman who wonders why the appliance doesn't work, but knows for a fact that it's plugged in. He knows so totally and completely that it's plugged in that he refuses to check the plug.
If that isn't an example of faith, I don't know what is.
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