Before you read: This is an incredibly controversial subject because it, more often than not, involves the dogmatic defenses of what is known as religion. Objectivity is a virtue because only with objectivity can we begin to truly know things and know we know things. So stay open-minded and save your speech about how "you don't understand anything about anything RAAAAAAAGE" until the end. Hopefully, I will appeal to your logical senses and not flare up your emotional ones.
Anyway, let's dig into the actual meat and potatos of what I'm going to say starts now. So God exists. That is pretty important the whole theme of this whole speech. "But does Adam know God exists? How does one go about 'proving' God?" asks the critical analyzer. Well, you frickin' critic, let me satisfy your inquiry:
The Beginning of All Things
Nothing quite spells idiocracy like saying "Nothing began everything." No seriously, that's pretty much this entire point. To say "Nothing existed then it exploded then everything existed" is a whole lot of dumb. Nice Big Bang Theory. Maybe if one thought less with one's butt and more with one's head, there would be less theories that go around defying logic (the source of all knowledge) and the layman's atheist would stop denying God as an alternative.
For the person who will no doubt want more than a rant about Adam having superiority issues, the entire nature of something defying logic, our ability to reason and understand something, causes me to question those who claim to know much but cannot claim to know something as basic to mankind as to know our origins. It's only something we've been thinking about since the dawn of man. If man has failed to explain something so important as our existence, then how can we trust ourselves to "know" anything? We can only "know" things, if we believe in God because otherwise we would cease to exist. Cease to begin, to be more precise. In an interesting debate with a colleague of mine, he brought up the proposition of infinite regression, the theory of that there simply was no beginning of things. Saint Aquinas recognized that everything has a cause and thus everything was caused by something else, and this repetitious cycle goes all the back to the beginning of the first thing. The question is asked then, what began the first thing? We often call that God, but in the theory of infinite regression, there is no God because He was unneeded to begin all things. Take the Earth for example, because it's big and we all know it is. If nothing caused the Earth into existence, then it would exist infinitely into the past and infinitely into the future, which is a highly illogical statement and hurts my brain just to think about. If we had no cause but exist through sheer randomness, whatever the crap that means, then the dark truth of the implications of having no God set in. Yep, that's the some of the intense/insane thinking that goes into the inner-workings of Atheism. I'm sure you learned that at Atheist church though.
The God-Shaped Hole in our Lives
You see, as a Christian looking in, Atheism is bound to seem less rational through lack of exposure. For that lack of sympathy for the case, I am sorry. I'm bound to have my faults. None-the-less, I will continue my rant.
Ultimately, if we all agreed that life is meaningless, everyone would pretty much be out in streets committing mass suicide. But let's face it, if your buddy asked, "Hey man, what's our purpose in life?" and you answered, "I don't know," you probably wouldn't kill both kill yourselves or whatever. No one likes dying. It's not very fun to be dead, from what I hear. Then again, it was a second-hand source. Anyway, so yeah, Atheism points alot to this, "Make meaning for yourself, man. You gotta just find yourself, dude. You know, brother?" (Yep. I just represented atheists as soul-searching hippies. Awesome) Morality doesn't exist, you got to wander aimlessly to find "your purpose," and ultimately, and I quoth, "Their God is their stomach." ~The Good Book
So yeah, it's kind of a sucky life to lead. You die and you pretty much die scared. Like, for a Christian, if they're wrong, and were spreading a false message, cool. We all die and we all rot in the ground. But for an Atheist, they just missed out on hanging out with God. On a side note, Hell is such a dumb motivater. No one likes someone telling them "If you do the wrong thing, you'll get punished!" Personally, I like to hear, "Hey, if you do the right thing, I'm gonna take you out for ice cream!" When there's no reward for doing the right thing and you think you'll benefit from doing the wrong thing, you'll probably do the wrong thing unless God is there and says, "No. Bad Person!" Life isn't about rewards and punishments, but they sure seem to help us be productive. The definition of right and wrong, by the way, is not "What would Jesus do?" "Uhhhh, die to save my soul?" The only definitive answer is what is best for society and ultimately humanity. The Bible helps out alot to know why people suck and learn why virtues are virtues besides "God told me so."
Afterthought:
Don't get me wrong, I'm totally a Christian, by the way. I'm just starting to look at the world in such a way that I don't want to be manipulated. I don't the most charming person in the room to be my leader. I want the smartest man to lead me. I like to believe I'm not in some sort of cult, but it's hard to say I'm not. I'm not challenged to think like this on my own. I'm not challenged to understand why I believe what I believe. What is evidence? Am I believing in something illogical? Am I only following the thinking of my fathers or am I thinking for myself?
If you're wondering, I only know these things because I've been challenged by the Philosophers of Old, all amazing men of great intelligence. Look up analysis of their work by the people down at The Teaching Company. It's pretty amazing what you'll learn. Basically, the smartest people you don't know are the Philosophers. They're just thinkers. It's brilliant.
Anyway, yeah. If you feel like high-fiving me or slapping me, let me know what you think of this by commenting. I appreciate it.
