The Religious Paradox Called Atheism

1. “We believe in Atheism/Evolution.” This statement is a dead give-away that Atheism is another religious belief system just like any other religion on earth; the word ‘believe’ being a typical religious supposition.

2. ”We do not believe in Absolute Truth.” This disingenuous stance is paradoxical indeed; read the literature and you will soon discover that atheists do not believe in Absolute Truth … except for the absolute truth of Atheism. 

P.S. Again the ever-present ‘believe’. 

3. “We do not believe in God.” This is said as if supported by hard, indubitable and uncontested scientific fact; yet, in his next lecture the same atheist & scientist must concede that  scientists (i) only know about 5% of what is going on in the Universe (the rest i.e. 95% comprising ‘undetectable by scientific in-struments dark matter + dark energy’) and (ii) only know about 10% of what is going on in the oceans. 

4. “We can be good without God.” Why would any atheist want to be ‘good’ unless goodness was a value worth pursuing, cherishing and emulating? Jesus Christ has said: 

   “A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.” [Matt12:35]. 

  It thus stands to reason that people valuing ‘goodness’ as a trait worthy of pursuit would respect God and love Jesus Christ. So, why don’t they?

5. ”We defend peoples’ civil liberties.” Another Biblical value they espouse, so why reject God/Jesus Christ? God says: 

   “Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.” [Isaiah1:17].

6. ”We support good causes & charities.” The Bible teaches: 

   “And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.” [1Cor13:13]. 

7. ”We pursue happiness and aim to be good through moral & ethical decision-making based on reason, empathy and compassion for others.” Atheists do not believe (sic) in an ‘Afterlife’ and aim to lead a ‘full & flourishing life‘ in this life. Jesus Christ has said: 

  “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” [John10:10]. 

   Besides, the idea of basing moral & ethical decisionmaking on the concepts of reason, empathy & compassion without the Moral Compass of the Bible is totally unsatisfactory: What if the atheist wanted to use his ‘reason’ the way Hitler did towards the Jews, or his 'compassion' and ‘empathy’ for hardcore Nazi-criminals the way El Chapo would do for his comrades-in-crime?

8. Conclusion. It is hypocritical for the atheist to dismiss the Bible as false, redundant & obsolete and then go and sheepishly pursue just about every Biblical value in the Bible with such religious fervour and fanatical zeal, and, in so doing, thus enthusiastically affirming the veracity of Biblical teaching and the Judeo-Christian values handed down to us over millennia by the Holy Scriptures known as the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and the New Testament as embedded in just about every civilised justice system of jurisprudence today.  

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