{"id":2995,"date":"2011-11-19T13:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/11\/you-know-with-atheism-meaning-is-an-illusion.html"},"modified":"2011-11-19T13:14:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T13:14:00","slug":"you-know-with-atheism-meaning-is-an-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/11\/you-know-with-atheism-meaning-is-an-illusion.html","title":{"rendered":"You know with atheism meaning is an illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

So why don\u2019t you ditch the illusion this holiday season and believe in the One who gives real meaning to the season.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Ask an atheist next time what their atheism does for the starving mother of dying children in Sudan.\u00a0 Ask them what hope they have to offer other than oblivion.\u00a0 See if you can catch the next celebrity atheist on his way to the next round of Champagne and caviar buffets.\u00a0 Then ask yourself, if in a thousand years humanity agrees that\u00a0selective\u00a0genocide is the only way to control overpopulation, what the modern atheist could appeal to in order to say those looking to curb the population through genocide are wrong.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Once you\u2019ve done so, you\u2019ll see why the only myth and illusion this holiday season are those who insist their\u00a0universe of \u2018is\u2019 contains any objective \u2018oughts\u2019.\u00a0 Then you might decide it\u2019s time to find that objective source of meaning.\u00a0 A source the could lead all the way back to a babe in a manger.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So why don\u2019t you ditch the illusion this holiday season and believe in the One who gives real meaning to the season.\u00a0 Ask an atheist next time what their atheism does for the starving mother of dying children in Sudan.\u00a0 Ask them what hope they have to offer other than oblivion.\u00a0 See if you can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nYou know with atheism meaning is an illusion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"So why don't you ditch the illusion this holiday season and believe in the One who gives real meaning to the season.  Ask an atheist next time what\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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