Atheist meme mistake: Atheists are illogical about morality and sin
Many atheists proclaim themselves to be bastions of reason and logic. They consider themselves to be free thinkers who are correct in their rejection of God. They believe themselves to be superior in their thinking when it comes to matters concerning God. That’s ironic since it can be easily demonstrated that 1. Many atheist claims are illogical and 2. an atheist cannot live consistently within an atheistic worldview. Since many will miss this second point, let me emphasize it by repeating it, atheists cannot live consistently within an atheistic worldview. In fact, no one can live consistently within an atheistic worldview. That is a sign that the atheistic worldview is not true.
Case in point: memes on morality and sin. They are problematic for atheists, though atheists apparently have not realized that yet. Let me explain why.
One of the proofs of God that Christians offer is the proof from morality, which can be stated as follows:
Major premise: If God does not exist, then objective moral values and duties do not exist.
Minor premise: Objective moral values and duties do exist
Conclusion: Therefore God Exists.
I will not expound or defend the argument here, I’ve previously done that in the article The Moral Argument – Revealer of Hypocrites which you can reference for further background. Here let me just note that for many the moral argument is one of the more powerful and persuasive of the arguments for the existence of God because everyone recognizes that we as humans are moral beings with moral obligations. How then do atheists, with all their presumed reason overcome this argument? They use their favorite tactic: denial.
Atheists deny that morality is related to God. Alternately they deny the related concept of sin. In denying sin they deny that a moral failing can lead to culpability, but in so doing, they also deny good and bad, right and wrong exists. Before we get to the contradiction here are some atheist memes that express these denials:
Atheists on Morality:
“Atheists believe morality to be a uniquely human trait
Therefore, we conduct ourselves ethically for it’s own sake. We seek no reward for ourselves nor punishment for others”
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Great article!
(In the first note Richard Dawkins’ surname is misspelled.)
Thanks, and corrected!
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