Wednesday, February 8, 2017

If There is No God

Dennis Praeger tackles this weighty question and does an excellent job with it. One example:

"If there is no God, the kindest and most innocent victims of torture and murder have no better a fate after death than do the most cruel torturers and mass murderers. Only if there is a good God do Mother Teresa and Adolf Hitler have different fates."

Now that is a stopper - it's so, so unfair! Indeed.

There is a great deal of anger abroad, not only in this country, but in the world at large. I wonder, though despite the fact that it is directed largely at President Trump at the moment, if it isn't really fear sensed at a deep level that the logical result of secular humanist beliefs is that these people who have done away with God really don't matter - they have taken God out of the picture and now are no more significant than a piece of gravel on the ground. Somehow they know this at a deep level and it gnaws at them so they have to stay "safe" within the bubble of their self-created environment that there is somehow "good" and "right" or "fairness" despite the logical impossibility of such qualities existing in a Godless world. In effect, they are mad at the unfairness of existence without God and yet are angry at Him for making it so (even though He doesn't exist) and so their anger is transferred to the next best authority figure that they can see, Donald Trump. I wonder of psychologists would give a group rate? I think we may be witnessing a gigantic collective psychotic break which is only superficially about politics.
townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2008/08/19/if_there_is_no_god

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