I
can't help but smile. Atheist blogs are declaring the amazing finding
of a “study.” Here's the conclusion: Atheists are more likely
to exist in those societies where our basic needs are met.
That's
it.
Rich
people are much more likely to ignore their need for God than are
poor people. If the tone of atheist blogs is any indication, that
conclusion appears to strike atheists as profound. Perhaps it is
profound. It's just that the same judgement was rendered -
a)
by a guy that atheists despise and desperately try to ignore, AND
b)
it was recorded in what atheists mock and ridicule as a bronze age
Book that was written by ignorant camel herders.
Here's
what this guy said 2,000 years before atheists came to the same
conclusion. “I tell you the truth, it is easier for a Camel to go
through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the
Kingdom of Heaven”
Jesus
Have
you ever wondered why Jesus would say that? There are two reasons.
The Study only deals with one of them in an abstract form.
First
– No one comes to Jesus without God drawing that person. What's
more, no one comes to heaven without first coming by way of Jesus.
Second
– Our corrupt human nature compels us to look everywhere, and I
mean EVERYWHERE except to our Creator for our sense of security and
belonging, for our sense of value and worth. And the first place that
we look for these things is to money and the security it pretends to
give.
Those
who are poor have no illusions that this world has the answer to our
deepest needs. The reason that prostitutes, drunks, thieves (both
street level and high rollers) and others who live on the fringes of
society flock to Jesus (both then and now), is that they know without
doubt that happiness is not tied up in things. They know at a
fundamental level that our most important longings run much, much
deeper than what possessions or power, or looks or relationships or
mood altering chemicals, or intelligence or education, or ( ) can touch.
The
rest of us however simply cannot shake the pseudo logic that we, on
our own, can solve our innermost problems. We're even so foolish as
to think that money will lead us to peace and happiness.
“Well
yes, I know it didn't work for those people, but for me it'll be
different.”
Another
thing this study shows is that declaring oneself to be a atheist has
nothing at all to do with so called “evidence” or the perceived
lack thereof. Evidence wasn't required thousands of years ago for
people to deny the existence of Creator God and it isn't required
today. Becoming an atheist has everything to do with the delusion of
thinking that you are the captain of your fate, and the master of
your soul. Material wealth simply allows that line of thinking to
exist.
As
God has warned, “I will send a great delusion to those who choose
to reject Me.”
So,
let the atheists go their own way. Let them live, smug in the
satisfaction that a study has shown us that the fastest way to forget
about our Creator is to provide ourselves with food, clothing and
shelter and medical care, and boats and cars and winter vacations and
houses with three or four car garages and a cabin at the lake and
ATV's and tv's and computers and recreational drugs – LOTS of
recreational drugs and casual sex and porn, and sporting events –
LOTS of sporting events and serial marriages and mind numbing sitcoms
and busyness – being busy is very important and religion and
“Causes” and, well, what amounts to one distraction after
another.
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how intelligent atheists must be to figure out, 2,000 years after camel herders declared it, that those things induce us
to ignore our Creator.
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