Saturday, November 29, 2008

Good stuff! (I don't have enough faith to be an atheist.)

I'm still working my way through this book cover to cover... and dang, it's good!  The reasoning the authors use is excellent, and it is very professional... yet the language is still very easy to understand.

Here's the conclusion paragraph to the 7th chapter, entitled "Mother Teresa vs. Hitler" (which talks about the existence of the Moral Law, and therefore the existence of a moral law giver):

"In the end, atheism cannot justify why anything is morally right or wrong.  It cannot guarantee human rights or ultimate justice in the universe.  To be an atheist--a consistent atheist--you have to believe that there is nothing really wrong with murder, rape, genocide, otrture, or any other heinous act.  By faith, you have to believe there is no moral difference between a murderer and a missionary, a teacher and a terrorist, or Mother Teresa and Hitler.  Or, by faith, you have to believe that real moral principles arose from nothing.  Since such beliefs are clearly unreasonable, we don't have enough faith to be atheists."

Good stuff!


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