Some people hate religion. They are vehemently opposed to the
very existence of Christianity and other faiths in God or a “god.” These people maintain that the world and life are the
product of chance and evolution. They
reject the idea of a Creator or a Divine plan.
But then.
Then those same people say, as
proof of their position, “If there is a God, where was He when…”
… when my child died.
… when my father abandoned us.
… when Hitler murdered millions of
Jews.
… when the Twin Towers were
attacked.
… when etc., etc.
The atheists reason that if they
can show God lacking accountability for tragedy then they can disprove God.
Well, here’s what baffles me: Why don’t they ask, “Where was
chance and evolution when…”
Why aren’t they angry at evolution
for randomly selecting a child as unfit for survival?
Why aren’t they mad at natural
selection for marking entire ethnic groups for genetic extinction?
Where’s the indignation that the
steady progress of evolutionary “advancement” created Hitler, who as a later
member of the species should have been a better specimen than say Socrates or
DaVinci or Isaac Newton?
Why aren’t they mad that “Science”
or “Nature” didn’t intervene to facilitate the punctuated evolution of the
people in the Twin Towers so that they could survive such a catastrophe?
Why are atheists who say they find religion
illogical, so irrationally mad about what they think God did or didn’t do?
When I or my wife get a toothache I don’t demand answers from the tooth fairy because I don’t believe that the tooth fairy exists.
When I or my wife get a toothache I don’t demand answers from the tooth fairy because I don’t believe that the tooth fairy exists.
It’s not simply that I don’t want
the tooth fairy to exist. It’s not that
I think the tooth fairy is being mean or unfair so I’m going to say she doesn’t
exist because I’m mad at her. It’s that
I really don’t think there’s a tooth fairy.
I don’t question the fairness or
fairy-ness of the tooth fairy because that would be me delusionally arguing with
a non-entity. So why, why do atheists
use God’s behavior in their arguments?
Either there’s something in even the most ardent atheist that makes it impossible not to subconsciously acknowledge God.
Or atheists are delusional.
He
has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s
heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to
the end. (Ecclesiastes 3: 11)
The fool has said in his heart,“There is no God.” (Psalm 14: 1)
The fool has said in his heart,“There is no God.” (Psalm 14: 1)
Rev.
Anderson T. Graves II is pastor of Miles Chapel CME Church in Fairfield,
Alabama; executive director of the Substance Abuse Youth Networking
Organization (SAYNO); and director
of rural leadership development for the National Institute for Human
Development (NIHD).
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