Atheism is Just So….Dull

Think of all the really cool and interesting and beautiful things that are religious: all those Gothic cathedrals, the monasteries, Baroque churches.

Show me an atheist building as wonderfully kooky as a Baroque church.

And Handel’s Messiah and the Last Supper and the Sistine Chapel and those Raphael Madonnas. Even the cave paintings at Lascaux were religious.

Shucks, pretty much all the artwork in all the major galleries in Europe is religious.

Even the scary stuff is interesting. Like Kali the destroying  goddess with her red tongue and scowl and skull necklace,  those horrible Canaanite and Babylonian monster demon gods, Aztecs sacrificing human beings, Elizabethans hanging, drawing and quartering Catholics and Catholics burning Protestants. The crusades and corrupt popes and African cannibal shamans, Native Americans making mummies in caves and all that stuff–darn it. It’s just plain fascinating.

And the reason atheism is so darned dull is because it is a negation. It is saying “No” all the time.

How dull is that?

Atheism is one big denial of most everything that is infinite, that is wonderful, that is far out and unbelievable and unbelievably true.

Religion, on the other hand, is interesting because, rather than close down all that is infinite and wonderful and strange and inexplicable it opens up to all that.

It opens up to the whole unseen world in all its unpredictability and terror and says, “Let’s Dance.”