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Atheist Hypocrites

You will often hear an atheist claim that they are not Christian because Christianity is full of hypocrites, and it is true. The reason there are so many hypocrites, not only in Christianity but in any religion is because people are actually trying to hold themselves to a standard. The atheist doesn't have this problem. For the atheist, whatever he alone considers "good" is good and whatever he alone considers "bad" is bad. And he can change this at a whim. The atheist can't be a hypocrite because he has no standards to hold. No one can point to the atheist and say, "Ah-ha, you hypocrite! You aren't holding to what you believe", because what an atheist believes is so fluid and ever changing. Therefore the atheists excuse and accusation against religion is hollow and is instead a testament that the religious person believes something that is not being held.

Further, this is the reason the Bible says:

"Do not be unequally yoked [linked] together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communioni has light with darkness?" -- 2 Cor 6:14

Can you imagine the trouble it causes when Christians marry non-Christians. One person has standards and the other person has none (if they are an atheist), or opposing standards (if they are another religion).

But the same is true not just in marriage but in friendships and associations. Do you have more non-Christian friends? This reminds me of another verse.

"Do not be deceived: 'Evil company corrupts good habits.'" -- 1 Cor 15:33

It is one thing to have some friends who are non-believers, but if your main influence is from unbelievers, there will be trouble for the "habits" of your life and faith.

To conclude, I find atheists to be the most unstable people. Even a person of a different religion can be assessed by their religion, an atheist just makes stuff up as they go.

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A Hatter of Matter...

Roderick,

Your article is a conglomeration of problems for the atheistic perspective. Why should the atheist's own standard be trusted since the apparent morality involved in keeping that standard is in direct accordance with a religion of some sort? For the atheist, it would be the religion of self and self's own ability to reason and make decisions. But where does that ability to reason come from, and why should self be put on a reliable personal trust fund? Oh yes, right...I forgot. The arbitrarily random succession of hairless apes, living in an arbitrarily random, chance, meaningless world. From this ground it stands to reason that arbitrary randomness produces randomness--it cannot produce order or conformity. Therefore, since atheists (or at least most) don't live and think randomly we can attribute them the largest block cap letters of HYPOCRITE ever. If someone is going to support a worldview or perspective on life, they should be able to give a reasoned account for it, and essentially live by the standards of that worldview--down to every single minute detail they so dogmatically advocate. There is simply no neutral ground. You either have rational order and an Orderer, or irrational disorder and a Randomness. The problem is that atheists desire to have both.

"In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!"~Ron Carlson

Sadly, the atheist can very well be a hypocrite because he/she does indeed have standards to hold. While they themselves dogmatically impose these standards upon everyone else to the ruin of our government, our nation, our state, schools, and the sinful abuse of everything else under the sun so graciously granted to us by God, yet do they themselves prove unfaithful. So I think, "Ah-ha, you hypocrite! You aren't holding to what you believe", directed at atheists is truly justifiable, irrespective of the beliefs of fluidity and constant changes---which are just excuses to justify an unjustifiable worldview anyhow, very much like asking nonsensically with a grin, "Is a raven like a writing desk?"

Atheist

This is an excellent article. It makes a very good point. After all they can change what they "believe" on a whim; as you say.
God bless you in your ministry.
T.A.

Atheist Hairless Apes

Thanks for the comments Mr. Blankenship, unfortunately for the atheist it gets worse. If atheists believe they have come from apes, then they obey rules and laws and restrict themselves otherwise gain merely because they as a hairless ape are too weak to overcome the oppression of other hairless apes. This puts the atheist in a rather awkward position, since at least the religious person (or specifically Christians), do what we do because we believe a higher power is at work. Atheists MUST do what they do in obeying rules and laws of other hairless apes because they are simply too weak to overcome. Perhaps they'll claim they follow laws because it is to their mutual benefit, but that would ultimately be a lie since if an atheist could figure out how to gain without penalty, why don't they do it? Why not rob a bank? Why not take any woman you want? Why not defeat your every enemy? Because as a hairless ape, you fear the repercussions of such actions; other hairless apes would hunt you down and cage you or worse yet kill you.

So, at least the religious person does what they do not out of fear of other humans, but because God wills it.