(This is post number 2,100 to this blog.)
I just received a note in my email, a comment on a two-year-old post to this blog about why I believe in God, from someone who identified himself as an atheist.He didn't like my arguments, and wanted to leave his opinion. Well, that's what the combox is for. But when I went to the post to see his comment, it wasn't there. My best guess is that he must have deleted it himself.
Just today, by coincidence, a friend of mine made an interesting point to me. Walking through a cemetery, he noticed that most of the people buried there had been dead for many more years than they had been alive.
If atheists are right, thought my friend, then it seems logical that the ultimate purpose for human life is... death. You might live 70, 80, even 100 years. But you'll be dead, according to the atheists, for hundreds of thousands, even millions or billions of years, eventually.
And yet, with so little time left to them, many atheists, including my abortive correspondent, spend some part of that time arguing about something that they know doesn't exist.
As a Christian, I know I'm only taking a tiny (negligible, really) slice out of the eternity that I will continue to live when I discuss my faith, which is real, rich, and enduring. But an atheist -- if he really believes what he is saying -- is making a far, far larger investment of his time, in terms of a percentage of his existence, in arguing in favor of nothing.
There's something wrong with that. If you're so sure that there's nothing after death, why are you spending your Monday nights on something so trivial as visiting Catholic blogs to tell the bloggers that they're wrong? Isn't life any more precious to you than that? If you're right, you have so very little of it.
3 comments:
Good post, so true. From what I've seen, atheists aren't content with simply living their own lives. If you think about it, an atheist's life is pretty lonely. When I find a moment alone, I know I am not really alone, I have faith. I know God is with me. If an atheist is alone, with no one to talk or type to, then they feel despair, as they don't believe God is with them. I believe we, as humans, were all made to be in relationship. An atheist alone, has got to feel pointless.....and so therefore will spend time to convince others of his same beliefs, or lack there of. An atheist still yearns for relationship, it's in his make up...even with Catholic bloggers....your atheist doesn't even know it, but he yearns for God, and seeks relationship. I'm no expert on atheism, just my .02. Love your blog, have been following for some time. sahmatwork
I have an atheist friend who usually spends about half an hour a day sat on the toilet. I guess he doesn't like to hurry.
But there's something awfully troubling about this, isn't there? This is a man who believes (says he believes) that there is no god. And yet 'knowing' there isn't an afterlife doesn't motivate him to make better use of his time. WTF?
Sadly, I often find him lying half asleep on the sofa, glaring at the TV, muttering to himself. Not only that, he hasn't activated the predictive text function on his cell phone which means he takes twice as long to write a message than you or I would.
Idiot atheist.
Maybe he isn't really such an atheist as he claims.
At least on the toilet, he's accomplishing something.
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