Modern Atheists are not really atheists at all. They are worshippers of reason. And, they seem to believe that their faith in reason is well-placed, and gleefully point to various religious conflicts, most of which occurred long ago, and imagine a utopia, if only these religious fools would just abandon their superstitious belief in God. But the worship of reason, has in fact, been the cause of far more murders than any other religion. If we add the murders of China's Mao, and Stalin's Soviet Union, well, we find that state-sponsored atheism has quite easily surpassed any other religion in body count. It seems, when atheists are in charge, the murders are counted in the tens of millions.
Don't get me wrong. I have friends who are atheists, and they are fine people. In the millieu of a Christian-dominated society, the village atheist may even provide a beneficial, skeptical challenge to the dominant authority. I just don't want them in charge. And the reason is simple. Power corrupts. And, reason, in the hands of the powerful, with no belief in divine retribution, finds very fine rationale for the wholesale extermination of multitudes, and has no "superstitious" constraint to inhibit them from carrying out their fine and glorious plans. The most horrific plots imaginable seem reasonable to the atheist in charge, when there is no check on his power.
There is a reason why every science fiction story where the unfeeling, godless machines take over end quite unhappily for the human race. Reason, when unchecked by conscience, is a peculiarly unworthy god. And, does the god of reason really supply a way to form a conscience? Reason only provides a way for getting from assumptions to conclusions. It cannot supply assumptions. Many confuse an openess to new assumptions, or search for correct assumptions, as occurs many times in scientific inquiry, with reason. But science only engages in reason when checking the validity of assumptions. Reason does not supply the assumptions. And, the mind of man without a belief in a creator, a mind that dismisses the concepts of good and evil as false doctrines, while it may have convinced itself that it has applied reason to dismiss conventional morality, has no starting point to reason from to construct an alternative moral system. In my experience, most atheists stop at the point of dismissing religion and never bother to try to construct a new morality, and, whether they realize it or not, are left with power as the only remaining virtue. And, reason applied where power is the only virtue, has particularly ugly consequences, as it has no starting place but personal passions, or the will to survive. Such, I imagine, are the guiding moral principles of the dominion of Hell, itself.
Last weekend, a gathering of several thousand professed atheists gathered in Washington, D.C. Among there displays, there was a mock-up of a coin where "In God We Trust" was replaced with "In Reason We Trust." If we actually apply reason, rather than worshipping it, and learn a little from history, we will find that reason is not at all worthy of our trust. It is no mere coincidence that as the French turned to worship the Goddess of Reason in their bloody revolution, going so far as to place an image of the goddess of reason in the Cathedral of Notre Dame, that the guillotine lopped heads at an unprecedented rate. Reason is at best a tool for man's use in service of the one true God, never worthy of worship itself, and if ever promoted to the status of god, it will remain unsated as it demands multitudes of bloody sacrifices.
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