“The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” Psalm 14.1
The first thing I notice about the person asking this question is the extreme disrespect on display in the question: “Only morons would believe in an invisible magic sky-daddy like God.” Like the ignorance of those who crucified the Lord and did not know what they were doing (Luke 23.34), this person does not realize that in his reference to God, he is insulting and blaspheming the person with the power to send him into everlasting condemnation. (Luke 12.5)
That, of course, is to say nothing of the insult to believers whom he calls “morons” for believing in “an invisible magic sky-daddy.” Such a person does not realize the blessings of the freedom he has to speak in such an insulting, disrespectful way of both the people of God and God himself. He should count his blessings that God does not strike down such disrespectful people as was done in the days of feudal Japan around 1600, in the time of the Shoguns and samurai, when the slightest disrespect, the slightest disobedience shown to a samurai, might result in the punishment of an instant beheading as depicted in this scene from Shōgun[1]:
Samurai execution – alternate link.
But my model for response is based not on the wanton actions of a Samurai, but on the measured response of Jesus, the son of God who reveals the nature of God, when he was badly disrespected. The following is Jesus’ response when he was greatly insulted and disrespected by the people accusing him of being demon-possessed:
45 Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me!
46 Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me?
47 He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”
48 The Jews answered him, “Aren’t we right in saying that you are a Samaritan and demon-possessed?”
49 “I am not possessed by a demon,” said Jesus, “but I honor my Father and you dishonor me.
50 I am not seeking glory for myself; but there is one who seeks it, and he is the judge.
51 I tell you the truth, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death.”
John 8.45-51
When you understand that Samaritans were looked down upon and disrespected as half-breeds and idolaters, you see there is actually a double insult to Jesus here. Not only were they insulting his heritage by denying he is fully Jewish and grouping him with the half-breed Samaritans, but, additionally, Samaritans were regarded as people who didn’t know either God or his true teachings. So in essence they were saying Jesus didn’t know what he was taking about. To top off the insult and disrespect, they called him demon-possessed. It’s hard to get much further from God than that. Yet look at Jesus’ response. He spoke the truth to them. In fact the truth is at the heart of his response to them. He first asks if any of them can convict him of sin. The answer is no. That means no one has ever seen Jesus sin which would include lying. So Jesus has never told a lie. They know he has never told a lie, or they would also accuse him of the sin of lying—making him a sinner. They can’t do that because no one has ever seen Jesus commit a single sin—not one.
Now, what is their response to this person who they acknowledge has never lied or sinned? Not only do they not believe him, they insult him and disrespect him! That should evoke an immediate question. If you know someone never lies, yet when he answers your question, you don’t believe him, what does that say about you?
That is the problem this questioner has. Even when told the truth, many of the people of Jesus’ day did not believe him even though they knew he never lied. So I will speak the truth now, but I suspect that like the people of Jesus’ day, many who share the attitude of this questioner will not believe, because they are not really seeking the truth. They’re seeking ways to be affirmed in their sin and rebellion against God.
To Answer the Implicit Question
Christians believe, that “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Gen 1.1) God can do that because he is the eternal, almighty, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient God—not a “magic sky-daddy.” But for the questioner who neither knows God nor has the decency to show the creator some respect, such a belief is nothing more than belief in a “magical sky-daddy.” They use the derogatory, mocking terms to make their false belief seem rational. What do they believe instead? Most are materialists and, as such. believe hook, line and sinker in the Big Bang and neo-Darwinism, the evolutionistic theory of origins. Following the secular paradigm, they are forced to believe:
- There was nothing.
- Without a cause, the nothing exploded(!) and created everything—space, time, matter.
- Everything was chaos and, out of chaos with no intelligence and contrary to the second law, order was created.
- Out of the lifeless chaos which was somehow miraculously ordered into our universe and solar system, lifeless matter did three impossible things. 1. Created information (only intelligent beings can create information). 2. Imposed on lifeless matter the information needed to allow the lifeless matter to live. (Material objects cannot act on immaterial entities like information so this is another impossibility.) 3. Lifeless matter somehow became alive. (This is another impossibility. Life always comes from life. No one has ever witnessed or documented life coming from nonliving things.)
- Somehow, the formerly dead, now living, matter miraculously acquired consciousness, language and morality among other things. These are more impossibilities for mere matter.
I could go on, but let’s stop there. In this brief overview, I’ve stated what one must necessarily believe in order to hold to the current materialist, scientific view of the creation of the universe and life. Yet in this brief overview, I’ve pointed out ten impossibilities that make this belief impossible for the rational person—who claims a belief in science and reason—to believe. In spite of the many problems, the impossibilities inherent in these theories do not prevent “scientific” and “rational” people from believing in this scientifically accepted, but demonstrably false and impossible story.
This leads to an obvious question. Judge for yourself. Who is the moron? Is it the person who believes in what is acknowledged to be impossible yet believes it anyway (or at least pretends to believe it) because he doesn’t like the alternative—humbling himself before the almighty God? (I say “pretends to” because the existence of God is, in fact, obvious. (Rom 1.19-20)) Or is it the person who rationally rejects the impossible as impossible, discards the scientific nonsense as nonsense, and embraces the humbling truth that we are created beings, created by an almighty, omnipotent God? This is the God who “… wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth” (1 Tim 2.4) and to that end (the salvation of humans), has allowed, for a time, the ignorance of idolaters, such as this questioner. Scripture says “In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.” (Acts 17:30)
God has commanded all people, including those who ask this mocking question, to repent. To that end he has left many words of warning and wisdom to the wise. For example:
“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.” (Gal 6:7)
and
“But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken. 37 For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
(Matt 12.36-37
So here is a word to the wise. Stop your mocking and repent before you stand before God for judgment, lest you are judged and found guilty along with:
“… all the ungodly of all the ungodly acts they have done in the ungodly way, and of all the harsh words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” (Jude 1:15)
Make no mistake, you, who mock by calling God’s people “morons” and God an “invisible magic sky-daddy”, hear and understand this: such speech and actions are ungodly and worthy of judgment. The only question is, will you repent before judgment falls, or will you, having never repented, be thrown alive into the lake of fire (Rev 20.15) along with the rest of the ungodly who consider it sport to insult the living God and his people?
Duane Caldwell | July 21, 2025 | Printer Friendly Version
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Notes
1. Shōgun – from the 2024 series, Episode 1: “Anjin”
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Composite: The Biblical declaration of the Bible on atheists: Fools. 2025
