even worse, they have politicized it! Atheists treat the religious as if they were superstitious neanderthals; as if the religious are incapable of cogent reasoning or intellectual capacity; as if concepts such as 'scientific method', factual, evidentiary, and reality itself are beyond their grasp. I have seen their pseudo-intellectual tricks against people of faith. I've seen atheists haughtily declare that God doesn't exist, and then when they meet their intellectual match, dismiss solid logic with the defense that "a double negative cannot be disproved", or conversely that "a negative cannot be proven", as if that actually settles the matter.
Perhaps a majority of atheists ought to be intellectually honest and identify themselves correctly as anti-theists.
The bottom line for me is; NO atheist was present at the beginning of the universe to confirm or disprove the existence of God. Atheism, or humanism, or whatever you want to call it, is essentially a negativist value system. Therefore, atheists must go on the attack and negate any evidences presented for God's existence in order to give intellectual weight to their position. If they can create an evidential vacuum in which no deistic argument can survive, their position can be seen as more intellectually viable. It is in the negation of theistic proofs and evidences through circular reasoning that atheism achieves its self-justification.
At best, atheists can only say that there are no convincing evidences for God presented to them, so far. They cannot say there are no evidences for God because they cannot know that none exist anywhere. The atheist can only say that the evidence so far presented has been insufficient, in their judgment. That there could still be evidence presented in the future cannot be honestly refuted; an atheist cannot deny that there may indeed be an absolute proof that has so far gone undiscovered and that the existence of God is still possible. But that is NOT what atheists claim; theirs is an absolute rejection of even the possibility of God without anything to back it up, and the rejection of a need to 'prove' their argument. That is what makes atheism/humanism a RELIGION. This is also WHY atheists need to attack Christianity. It is because Christianity makes very high claims concerning God's existence, claims so specific and numerous that it directly challenges their atheism and pokes holes in their vacuum. They like the vacuum. In spite of claiming to believe in no god, atheists do have a god, and it is the only god they tolerate in their universe: themselves.
It is no wonder then, that the one religion that threatens the atheist bubble should be the particular target of hatred from atheists. They attack Christianity even though it is the wellspring from which western civilization itself developed the unique social and political values that gave rise to Europe, which in turn gave rise to the Renaissance era, which in turn gave rise to English and Scottish political philosophy that paved the way for the American Republic. Atheists, for the sake of non-belief, would deny to the world the social force and belief system that has not only attenuated human behavior and our world for the better, but the religion that caused America to be colonized, thereby giving birth to the absolutely unique and unduplicatable conditions and events that led to the American Revolution, thus establishing our Freedom Charter, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
These same atheists, whose value system is protected by the 1st Amendment, would undermine the Rights guaranteed to them just so they can deny to Christian Americans the outward expressions of faith that atheists find so offensive. It is not that atheists really believe the 1st Amendment guarantees “freedom FROM religion”, they’re not ignorant. No, the thing that atheists are constantly reminded of and find so offensive is; that the majority of Americans believe in God – and that they believe He gave us a form of government that is respectful of our freedom of thought, and a heritage that instructs us that Rights come from God – not the State.
The Christian faith did in fact give us America. Our form of government is derived from the Bible (Isaiah 33:22), our founders declared it repeatedly, and later our supreme Court affirmed it in 1887: “No purpose of action against religion can be imputed to any legislation, state or national, because this is a religious people... This is a Christian nation.”
Patrick Henry averred; “It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship.”
John Jay, the first Chief Justice of our supreme Court, declared: “Americans should select and prefer Christians as their rulers.”
Noah Webster, the creator of our American Dictionary, had much to say about America’s Christian origins: “The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and his apostles, which enjoins humility, piety, and benevolence; which acknowledges in every person a brother, or a sister, and a citizen with equal rights. This is genuine Christianity, and to this we owe our free constitutions of government.”
Webster offered; “Every civil government is based upon some religion or philosophy of life. Education in a nation will propagate the religion of that nation. In America, the foundational religion was Christianity. And it was sown in the hearts of Americans through the home and private and public schools for centuries. Our liberty, growth, and prosperity was the result of a Biblical philosophy of life. Our continued freedom and success is dependent on our educating the youth of America in the principles of Christianity.”
For the atheist fringe to rail against the Christian origins of America is, at the least, subversive. A fool can be forgiven for having been a fool, but willful ignorance is wrong no matter what. But consider Webster’s statement: “Every civil government is based upon some religion or philosophy of life.” If we acknowledge that atheism is a religion as the Courts, the Congress, and some Presidents have done, What sort of civil government do you get when a nation adopts the precepts of atheism?
France, 1792-1793: Atheism is officially adopted as the nation’s belief system. Within 1 year... 300,000 dead.
USSR, 1922-1987: Atheism is adopted as the nation’s mandatory and exclusive ideology. 61.9 million dead.
Communist China, 1943-Present: Atheism is adopted as the nation’s mandatory and exclusive ideology. 74.8 million dead.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Other nations adopted the teaching of secularists and Darwinists and ended up with a similarly baleful record. Also one could cite the radical Wahabbi doctrine of Islam, which bears little resemblance to mainstream Islam and is mainly a political ideology much like the Spanish Inquisition (Jesuitism), with a similar trail of blood. Only where the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ is practiced, the tendency to wickedness is restrained through the intercession of the Holy Spirit. As an example, the Pitcairn Islands, where the Christian faith is the rule of life for all inhabitants, there is no need for police, courts, or jails. All who live there enjoy a degree of Liberty rarely seen anywhere in the world.
The only way to maintain a national heritage of liberty is to adhere to the lessons taught by men like Noah Webster: “The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.”
Also, John Quincy Adams: “The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.”
In addition, the instruction of James Madison: “The Christian religion, in its purity, is the basis and the source of all genuine freedom in government....I am persuaded that no civil government of a republican form can exist and be durable, in which the principles of Christianity have not a controlling influence.”
Christianity is the indelible foundation of America. In order for the advocates of totalitarian one-world government to achieve their aims, they must bring America down - which means Christianity in America must be eliminated, along with the principles that girded us at the birth of our nation. No patriot can tolerate the proscription against the expression of godly virtues and the condemnation of abhorrent behavior without abandoning this vital struggle. Radical atheism will triumph if Americans allow the legislatures in our state assemblies and in Congress to pass thought-crime laws that restrict our intellectual and spiritual freedoms, our right to assemble, and free speech in print, on the internet and verbally in the public square. In spite of public professions of honest intellectual debate, free inquiry, and academic freedom; true atheism is more at home in the great tyrannical regimes of collectivism and will seek to strip a society of freedom to create an enforced godlessness. Totalitarian states prefer atheism because it allows the state to supplant God as the supreme authority, so it does not have to compete against faith for the hearts and minds of the people.
"The Constitution is the supreme law of our land and it governs our actions as citizens. Only the laws of God, which governs our conscience, are superior to it." - Gerald Ford
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