The Atheists Ego

Again - something from years past

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A recent writer to the Reader's Opinion section of the Birmingham News made the following statement: "(T)here can be no God who would sanction or allow an attack like this or, for that matter, many other events happening all over the world." The writer would do well to contemplate his own words a little deeper.

In essence, what he means is this: "I can not fathom a God who would sanction or allow an attack like this, etc., and since I can not fathom Him, He can not exist." In other words, this writer is informing us that it is he who has the final say on what God can or can not be or do or allow. This writer has set his own intellect up as the sole and final judge over the possibility of God's existence. To so do, this writer must evidently see himself as omnipotent, having the ability to see all, comprehend all, and judge all.

I believe this writer does believe in a god. But his god is himself. No other God can exist without his personal approval. This is the absolute height of arrogance.

The "problem" of evil, pain, and suffering is perhaps the atheist's final plea. However, he must come to understand that without God, he can not even define good and evil. He has to assume that his own intellect, which by his creed is only a series of random eletro-chemical impulses, can somehow define what is good and what is evil.

Perhaps when the writer, and others like him, contemplate that without God they are setting their own minds up as omnipotent, while yet their own minds are only the result random chance and chaos, they will conclude that God does indeed exist, based on the impossibility of the contrary.