I think atheists are misguided people who have failed to recognize the irrationality of their position (and I say this as a former agnostic).

Here’s an example of what I’m referring to:
‘For Rauser, if a Holy Book or a faith isn’t giving your life meaning, then you can’t have one. If you give yourself some meaning independently, it’s worthless. Since so many of our values and morals are subjective, he can’t understand why atheists would bother to do anything good. That reeks of ignorance, not understanding. There are plenty of evolutionary explanations for things like altruism.’

How does explaining that altruism can have evolutionary causes have anything to do with answering the above problem?… the burden is on the atheist to show why it is that they are able to rationalize the belief that such a thing as good and evil actually objectively exists. If they say that we believe in good and evil, because of some evolved trait, that does nothing to show that good and evil are objectively real.

For example, if a person claimed that killing people was morally good, how could he be objectively wrong? If we all make up our own purposes and meanings, then he evidently couldn’t be wrong, because that was his own meaning to create.

God Bless,

“Everyone knows Christians don’t live among bears, they summon them to maul annoying kids.” <—–Brilliant

Why Atheists Have Better Sex
by Greta Christina

Blasphemy! Heresy! Surely Rauser knows that God designed that rock and put it in that very spot for Rauser to find.

Own goal.

So what am I arguing? Well consider a simple analogy. You come across a rock in the woods. It ended up there randomly. Nobody put it there. Nobody designed it. Since the rock was not designed with any purpose or intention in mind, it is by definition impossible to misuse it (for for doing so would constitute a deviation from an intended use).

Now imagine that you find a hammer in the woods. While you cannot, by definition, misuse a rock, you can indeed misuse a hammer because it was created with a particular intention or purpose.

Now to close the loop of the analogy. While atheists believe human beings are more like the rock, Christians believe they are more like the hammer. That is, atheists deny that human beings were created for anything, with any purpose in mind. By contrast, Christians believe human beings were created with a purpose or meaning.

We humans are the rock. It is society and sociological perspectives that are the hammer. Society as we know it was created and designed by humans. People take advantage of differences in society, and the various stratifications within, for their own gain every day. Most of the time, this is in the name of a god.

Killed by one of the parties, beaches, or bears?

You also don’t have to worry about your money going to support the opulent and decadent lifestyle of a televangenist, or going to support witch-hunting in Africa.