One of the worst arguments against atheism - ever

Posted by James Tracy on October 30th, 2008

Sisyphus Fragment alerted me to this blog post by a Christian who writes a “Spiritual Questions” blog. The post is titled “Why are they so many athiest bloggers?” and reads, in full:

Why are there so many atheism blogs? I saw recently how one guy collects them all in one place so you can “feed” on a life without God, literally hundreds of blog links, enough reading for several years.

My question is: Why? Why this persistent, diligent pursuit to prove or convince themselves and others that there is no God. Something I read some time ago seems to address this question.

Charles Colson tells about Irina Ratushinskaya, a young girl in the Soviet Union years ago. She was trained in Communist schools and indoctrinated in atheism. She said she could never figure out why her teachers all pitched such a furious battle against someone they said didn’t exist. “God doesn’t exist.” Irina began to question: “Can’t they tell they are giving themselves away? Adults tell you there are no gremlins or ghosts. They tell you once or twice, and that’s it. But with God, they tell you over and over again. So He must exist – and He must be very powerful for them to fear Him so greatly.”

You see, something inside is telling the atheistic bloggers - God really does exist. Rather than yield to his love, the atheist will convince himself/herself that God doesn’t exist and in so doing, proves that he in fact does exist, but that they are unwilling to acknowledge it. The sheer volume of atheistic blogs testify to the existence of one they refuse to acknowledge due to mulish pride.

The idiocy of this logic can be revealed (if it isn’t already painfully apparent) simply be reversing it. Why are there so many Christian blogs? You see, something inside is telling the Christian bloggers - God really does not exist. Rather than yield to the cold hard facts, the Christian will convince himself/herself that God does exist and in so doing, proves that He does in fact not exist, but that they are unwilling to acknowledge it.

Wow, that was easy!

Too bad this is one of the worst arguments against atheism - ever. Have you seen anything worse? Please share by dropping a comment!