Why atheism doesn't work.

Atheism has no moral compass. A lot of atheists live by their own morality, or their own logic. And their morals shift like the wind, or remain unchanged until a new morality pops up.

But what is their foundation? What makes them different from other groups? Nothing. Atheists share the same flaws and problems of most Christians. If God isn't their foundation, then what is their morality?

Does morality come and go? Or do people base their moral perspectives, on their instincts? Personally, I don't think people would know that it's wrong to kill, if a powerful force like God hadn't write it down. When God is in the picture as our teacher, we start to correct our behavior.

If two guys get into an argument, and see a group of police officers, they might have more control over their emotions and not allow their shouting match to escalate into something worse. But if the cops are not seen a fight may occur.

I can safely say that I would be more out of control and have less self control without God in my life. In middle school, I would get into fights, and make sure that the teachers wouldn't catch me. Because if they did, I would get in trouble. If I saw a teacher, I would stop fighting and act normal.

But the point is that with an authoritative figure around, people act more civilized. And that's why humanity needs God. America would not have turned out to be such a great country, without a Christian world view. Sure, some of the founding fathers were non believers, but they saw the value in the moral teachings of Jesus Christ. So the Bible was their foundation.

When I tried to be an atheist, I failed miserably. Because I still believed in fate and destiny, and it just didn't feel right. As an atheist, you have to deny the very thing that makes you human. It's in our nature to worship and idolize people and materialistic things.

If you're not worshiping God, you will worship something else, art, a statue, or an object. Before God came into my life, I was worshiping movies, women, comic-books, and anime. So no matter what we do, humanity will worship something. It's just a natural thing that people do.

Which means that atheism attempts to be anti-human. And when atheists become corrupt, they go to the extreme. Like Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Marquis de Sade, and Madalyn Murray O'Hair. When you ignore an authoritative figure like God, you tend to have less self control.

When a dictator with atheistic ideologies is in charge, he will usually make people worship him and the people who work under his regime. So when God isn't being worshiped, people start worshiping themselves. That's logical, and it is exactly what happens.

Now an atheist who seeks love and truth, will find it. That atheist will turn out to be a good person, because they're seeking the right things in life. A Christian who seeks the opposite of love and truth, is not a good Christian.

A good Christian seeks love and truth, and follows Jesus Christ. When an atheist attempts to ignore the morality in the Bible, they're ignoring the truth. And when they ignore the truth that God gives us, they'll simply follow their own truth, and their own morality, or the morality of the society that they live in.

If a society tells an atheist to rape someone, will they do it? Probably, since they don't follow the morality in the Bible, and might end up following the morality of their society.

Over the past 2,000 years, morality has changed and shifted in different cultures, because a lot of morality is simply man made, and doesn't have a real foundation.
But God's morality, in the New Testament, has remained the same over the past 2,000 years. The Old Testament has remained the same as well, with the New Testament as the addition.

Since Christians aren't bound to the Old Testament anymore, the New Testament is the true morality, because it comes from God himself. Any other morality in the last 2,000 years is not real morality, since it is most likely man-made.

Modern atheists don't seem to have real convictions either. Guys like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens go on to bash religion(especially Christianity), and then almost acknowledge that there might be some kind of higher power. They don't directly say it, but they come around to the idea.

I admire the convictions of Frederick Nietzsche, because he claimed that "God is dead", and we killed him. I disagree with that, because of my faith and the evidence that supports the existence of God and Jesus's resurrection. Nietzsche not only denied the scriptures in the New Testament, but acknowledge them at the same time. Because technically, he would be correct, if God is truly dead. Since Jesus was both the son of God and God in the flesh, then if Jesus wasn't resurrected, then we basically killed God. Luckily, the evidence supports the existence of God.

Either way, atheism literally means the "one who says there is no God, or there are no gods." So if an atheist wants to live by that statement, then they should own up to it. Instead of losing their convictions, and admit that there might be a "force."

Which is what Bill Maher had to admit on his show "Real Time With Bill Maher." So modern atheists don't seem to have strong convictions.

I'm not saying that we Christians don't struggle, but a great Christian must always stick to their convictions.

When you don't have God in your life, you're lost. When you do follow God and his Word, you're on the right path to truth and love. When I look at the so-called founders of modern atheism, they had real problems. Not just with their faith, but with their entire out-look on life. Their names are Darwin, Frederick Nietzsche, and Sigmund Freud. Now atheism has been around for thousands of years, but modern atheism seems to be influenced by these three men.

Atheism is not a positive position, since it's an anti position. How can an atheist know that there is no God? The Universe is enormous, so how can an atheist know that God doesn't exist? He or she would have to travel around the Universe, in order to know that. They would need to have a complete knowledge of the cosmos to know if God exists, or not. In other words, atheists would have to be the very thing that their denying exists. And since atheists are human, they don't have that type of knowledge so this position self destructs.

Atheism has a materialistic philosophy, that only grasps part of reality. An atheist might say, "Well to each his(or her) own. If you have faith, then it's true for you, but not true for me." Well guess what, faith does not create truth. Faith apprehends truth, and truth comes before faith. And faith is actually a response to truth. In fact, it's really defined as a response to evidence, and that's just one component of faith. Just because an atheist doesn't believe, doesn't mean there can't be a God. Because truth does not exist only in the head, it isn't subjective, it has an objective component.

Another problem with atheism, is that man is not created to be an atheist. People are religious creatures. If people don't have God as the center of their life, something else will be there. It might be sports, people, money, art, a country, drugs, sex, or alcohol. Whatever gives you a sense of meaning, whatever is most important, that center is your God. So you don't have to believe in God, in order to have a God. Which means that everybody has a God. Humanity seems to be hard wired to worship or idolize something.

Forget the fact that atheism simply doesn't work. I haven't met anybody who says, "Thank goodness for atheism." Nobody really claims that their lives were terrible, until they met some atheists, and now their lives are complete. I haven't heard anybody give credit to atheism for improving their marriage, their lives, or their health. People give credit to God for having wonderful changes. It is God who gets the credit, for making marriages improve, or having somebody give up drinking and smoking. So atheism doesn't work.

Now I want to discuss three of the most influential men for modern atheism, which are Charles Darwin, Frederick Nietzsche, and Sigmund Freud. Charles Darwin lived from 1809 to 1882. He was British, a naturalist, and an exponent of evolutionary theory. Nietzsche lived from 1844 to 1900, he was a German. Freud lived from 1856 to 1939, and worked in Austria.

Now Darwin was a genius. I haven't read the "Origin of Species", but I've read Darwin's theory on evolution and his life story, and it's amazing. What's interesting about Darwin, is that when he knew that his argument was weak, he admitted it.

His life was very interesting. His family were liberal Christians and atheists, with a history of insanity. Darwin seemed to worry that he would lose his sanity. He didn't remember much about his mother, and his father was enormous. He was 6.2 and weighed 345 pounds. He was a strict disciplinarian and authoritative figure.

Darwin goes to medical school and then theology school. He becomes a ship's naturalist. What's interesting is when he would set out on the Beagle in 1831, his health would improve. But when he came home, his health would decline. Psychosomatic illnesses and depression would resume when he came home in 1836. Many books have diagnosed him as having unresolved feelings with his father which effected his psychosomatically. When he was away, his health was good. When he came back, it was poor. There is something to that.

Darwin had a negative experience with Christianity. When he was on the Beagle, Captain Fitzroy firmly believed in slavery, and he would used the Bible to justify it. That definitely effected Darwin's attitude towards Christianity.

According to my research, when Darwin wrote "Origins", he seemed to have been a believer. But by the time he wrote "The Descent of Man" in 1871, he had become an unbeliever. The amazing thing is that his wife was always a believer, and Darwin continued to give to Christian missionary efforts until he died. He was a complex figure.

The theory of evolution, which is organic matter giving rise to life, is an ancient concept. There were Greeks 2000 years before Darwin, who were teaching that. Darwin admitted that his theology was not coherent, the universe didn't seem to come by chance, yet he didn't see the evidence of a design. He said that were was no design, and everything in nature is a result of fixed laws. Fixed laws?

Now imagine you living in a house, and somebody claims that there is no design in a house. It's just a result of fixed laws That person is able to explain how a house was built, and doesn't need a creator. Everything obeys the laws of physics and chemistry. Well what's the difference between design and fixed laws. They sound very similar to me.

People can see that Darwin contradicted himself, when he stated that there is no design, but there are fixed laws. When we have fixed laws, there is the strong suggestion of a design, and a designer. The fact that there is creation, means that there is a creator.

Darwin was very influential, maybe the most influential scientist of the 19th century. Influential in the biological sciences, and evolution spread to other sciences as well. He's influenced 20th century philosophers, and social sciences, including religion.

Darwin was one of the major prophets of atheism and his influence for atheism was probably more indirect, then intentional or direct. But as we're all aware, Darwinism and modern evolutionary theory has been wrapped up with the atheism or theism debate.

The next prophet that I'm gonna talk about is Frederick Nietzsche. He lived from 1844 to 1900. He was an ingenious philosopher and writer. If you haven't read his books, I recommend "Will To Power", and "Beyond Good and Evil." I warn all Christians who are brave enough to read his books, to please read them with a guarded heart. Nietzsche was not a friend to Christianity.

He's the one who famously said, "God is dead." He said in 1879, "Promise me that when I die, only my friends shall stand my side, and no inquisitive crowd. See that no priest or anyone else under false hoods at my grave site when I can no longer protect myself. And let me descend into my tomb, as an honest pagan."

Nietzsche was very consistent with his atheism. He didn't contradict himself, nor were his beliefs open for interpretations. He was a man of conviction. Darwin continued to support Christian missions, and his wife was very devout. Nietzsche was different.

He was born in 1844, his father and both his grandfathers were clergy men. His father suffered from mental illness and died in 1848, when Nietzsche was four. Nietzsche is then brought up in an all female household, he was left without a male role model. Obviously, boys can be brought up with sisters and mothers, and turn out fine. But sometimes, it can deeply effect the identity and the sexuality of that boy. Nietzsche had a homosexual background, he had strong feelings towards the musician Wagner, who refused his advances. Nietzsche advocated a homosexual life, but he seemed to have a chaste life.

If he was involved sexually, it was at a minimal level. He probably died of syphilis, but that's not certain. Like Darwin, he was sent to theology school and left in 1865. After he began to write, he entered a state of insanity. That happened from 1889 until his death in 1900. During that time, he wrote one of his most famous works called the "Antichrist," one of the most well written anti-Christian books I have ever read.

Nietzsche said "God is dead." What did he mean? Was God alive, and then he died? What Nietzsche was saying is God is dead in society. God doesn't function in society anymore. And if God is dead, that means there is no father figure, or ultimate authority figure. There is no absolute morality.

This is the true significance of Nietzsche. But if God is dead, somebody has to take his place. As I mentioned, we are religious creatures. There is a hole that has to be filled by something. And if God is dead, then there is no morality, which leads to some dark places. So there must be a God.

Nietzsche made a couple predictions of the 20th century. He predicted it would be the bloodiest century ever, and a pall of insanity would fall upon the human race. I guess these predictions came true.

Nietzsche was no friend to Christianity, his personal motto was, "Be hard, live dangerously." Who did Nietzsche inspire? He inspired, Idi Admin, Daniel Ortega, Fidel Castro, and Adolf Hitler.

Like Nietzsche and Darwin, Hitler had a bad experience with his father. He counted that he received 230 strokes from his father, while his mother stood powerless not interfering. In 1923, Hitler was investigating, thinking of selective breeding ideas and considered Africans to be half-apes. Nietzsche was Hitler's favorite philosopher, and he even gave a copy of one of Nietzsche's books to Mussolini.

Hitler needed a figure like Nietzsche to justify his ideas. Nietzsche was consistent, and he was insane. Was he go insane because of his ideas? I think so. But could he live with his ideas? Like with many intellectuals, they practice one thing, but it is not what they preach. Beware of people who don't follow their own advice. There are a couple scriptures on this. Like Matthew 23:3, and Matthew 7:20.

Nietzsche is arguably the most influential atheist of our time. Without God, what morality is there? Nietzsche might have deeply disturbed the Church.

A large portion of the American population claims to be saved, but only a small percent accept a Biblical world view. Like Jesus being divine, the Bible is the standard, there is a Heaven and a Hell, adultery is a sin, follow the ten commandments. In the religious world, morality has declined dramatically.

The third and last atheist is Sigmund Freud, who lived from 1856 to 1939. He was a brilliant man, a neurologist. He also hated his father. You start to see the theme emerging here. Most peoples' concept of God, is of the concept of their own father. And if that person feels hurt or abandoned by their father, it effects their concept of God. This isn't just true for men, but for women as well. It is definitely true for me, since the troubled relationship I had with my father, effected how I viewed God.

It wasn't just the tragedies that hurt my relationship with God, it was also the strife that I had with my father. Because of my father, I couldn't trust men. I'm a man, so I couldn't really trust myself, which meant that I was unable to trust Jesus and God. It took me awhile to realize that, and a little longer to trust Jesus and his father again.

Freud had obsessive dreams. He repeatedly dreamed that he would kill his father, in order to sleep with his mother. It's been said that he projected these obsessions onto the rest of mankind, without statistical evidence.

Freud felt that if man was freed of religion, he would have a better chance to live a better and more wholesome life. He considered the Roman Catholic Church to be his enemy. Freud died as the Nazis were coming to power. He considered religion to be a neurosis, and that the spiritual world was just a perception.

Freud was an addict of strong drugs, and a heavy smoker up to 20 cigars a day. Sadly, he devolped Cancer of the mouth, and he was deeply depressed, just like Darwian. Nietzsche was insane during the last 11 or 12 years of his life. Can these men live with their own system? That is the real question.

When you look at these three men, they have a couple things in common. A poor father relationship, depression, and inability to live within their own value system.

Atheism appeals to selfish human nature. When I tried to be a non-believer, it was out of selfish reasons. I wanted to live as I pleased not according to what God wanted from me, but what I wanted for my self. I had no order, or self control.

If we believe that there is a God, and an accountability to how we live, we live our lives differently. We live a moral way. If we didn't believe in God and felt that there is no accountability, we would live differently. So of course atheism appeals to selfish human nature.

In the end, God must exist. Without him(or her), the world would be in chaos. With his(or her) existence, the world will keep itself together.