Atheism

Atheism is the belief that there is no god. There was an article that I read today about a writer promoting this idea. Let's consider a few implications of atheism.

Atheism forces us to find some other explanation of how we came into existence. Many atheists claim that life arose from inanimate matter by random collisions of atoms, in other words evolution (although evolution actually does not try to explain how life started, only how it developed). I have heard a number of people say that they do not believe in any religion but only in evolution, or something along those lines.

But when we consider the general definition of religion: That which brought life into existence, even though it cannot be proven. It becomes clear that evolution is as much a religion as anything. Likewise, stating that "there is no god" is every bit as much a religious statement as saying that there is a god.

The arguments of atheists often revolve around the behavior (behaviour) of Christians. Sure enough, not all Christians are perfect. In fact, none are. But if this discredits Christianity then, using exactly the same logic, democracy is invalidated when a politician is involved in a scandal as is capitalism when a businessman does some creative accounting. I think it is reasonable to agree that in any group with two thousand million members, there will be a few that fail to live up to the ideals.

It is unfortunately true that there have been bad things done in the name of religion, both Christian and otherwise. This is often pointed out by atheists. However, using the same logic and the same standards, we find that some Nazis believed that they were at a higher stage of evolution than inferior peoples. Thus, there was nothing wrong with killing or enslaving them in order to purify the genetic pool. Similar ideas were held by some in the imperial powers with regard to building empires. Communists were not driven by biological evolution, but by belief that communism was the next step in human social evolution.

So, my conclusion is that if Christians are resposible for the bad things done in the name of religion, evolutionists bear responsibility for the approximately 140 million people that were systematically exterminated during the Twentieth Century for ideologies that had some basis in evolution.