Some Christians see Atheism as an Ideology

A Canadian professor is making his living bashing atheists. He does not do it by undercutting the fundamental argument of atheists, that there is no evidence of a super natural being. Instead, he compares what atheists write to what propagandists like Christians write.

His theme stated over and over is that atheists write to persuade. They do their persuasion by discrediting what religious people write and say. By discrediting Christians, this author writes, the atheists try to discredit what the Christian presents as truth. Atheists also, he writes, treat Christian views as the result of indoctrination instead of the result of logic and study.

I have to admit atheists write to persuade. It is also correct that generally atheists do not treat Christian intellectuals with much respect.  We can agree, too, that mostly atheists consider Christians to be the result of indoctrination because that is the only plausible explanation.

It would be more helpful if this professor of religion would provide explanations as to why atheists  simply admit they do not have all the answers while Christians give answers to everything with no source. For example, there are questions about where the universe came from. Atheists admit they do not know. Christians tells us the Bible provides the only answer. That can only result from Christian indoctrination about the Bible.

The power of the atheist case comes from its universality. There are threads of thinking that go in different directions, agnosticism versus atheism for example. But these positions are the same across the world from nation to nation and have remained the same over centuries.

Religious threads, however, change from nation to nation. In fact, there have been countless wars and deaths over religion.

That atheism continues to persuade people is not the reason it is right or wrong. It is right or wrong based on the strength of its argument. So far, it is prevailing.

The Christian professor in the link would do well to develop an argument as to why Christians are right and atheists are wrong.

Maybe he has tried and failed.

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