FRAUDFor far too long I relied on its false understanding of logic. Its pretense and irrational conclusions. Its narrow view of science and disconnection from common sense. It is a placebo for the contrarian. An appeasement for those who are angry with God or religion.
Life is full of uncertainties. We know, but don't know. We are aware, yet not aware. It is a paradox. Because of this uncertainty, I can understand first hand how it can be hard to accept that there is a God or that Heaven, Hell or Purgatory exist.
How can we know is often the question I asked as an Atheist. How can I live my life on a belief - on something that appears to not be tangible? How do I know that living a life of prayer and virtue prepares oneself to meet the Maker at death on good terms? Is this what really happens? These questions and more I've wrestled with and I am sure many Atheists have as well. Even most Saints have questioned God and the afterlife.
It is not easy. We are bound to 5 senses. I see a pizza. I smell it, I taste it, I hear it crunching in my mouth, I feel its heat, bread, cheese and saucy oily texture. But God, what do I see? What do I smell, taste, hear or feel? Living life relying on senses is not easy.
Atheism seems to come to the rescue. If it had a voice, it would say:
- We can only trust what our senses tell us.
- There is no God, He is dead.
- God is imaginary.
- Our senses cannot empirically study God so He is not real.
- All that matters is the material world.
- There is no spiritual world.
These all sound interesting and often can lure those who may have had a "bad" experience with God or religion.
Science is hijacked as the "Magesterium" of Atheism, so to speak. However, science does not exist to disprove God or religion. It exists to study and learn about the natural world.
Theories such as the Theory of Evolution or the "Big Bang" are often thrown around as proof that there is no God. However, these theories do not disprove God, but highlight His intelligence and creative work.
How? You may be asking. Well, there is no rationality in the idea that one day everything just exploded into existence, with laws, mathematical order and life evolving on this planet. Anyone who thinks that is a fool.
Atheism in this sense is a fraud. It attacks one set of so called "irrational" beliefs and replaces it with an even more irrational one.
Nothing cannot put something in itself. SOMEONE has to put SOMETHING in NOTHING. That is the most rational way of seeing it. Laws in the universe keep order, but laws need a lawgiver.
This is one of the reasons why I could not hold Atheistic beliefs any longer. They just did not make any sense to my rational mathematical mind.
I could not last any longer accepting the ideas that Atheism presented. It is a fraud.
