Atheists in jester's costumes

If belief in the existence of God is a "delusion," then atheists must be fools.

And I'm not referring to medieval jesters dressed up in pinstriped jumpsuits with dunce caps draped over their foreheads – although after watching Christopher Hitchens' performance in the great God debate with Dinesh D'Souza, that attire would have been a perfect fit, not only for Hitchens, but also for the context.

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No, I'm referring to the kind of person who makes a career out of making irrationality sound intelligent.

To posit – as atheists such as Hitchens and Richard Dawkins do – that all the manifest intelligence, meaning, order and beauty that exists in the realm of nature today is the byproduct of a billion-million-year-old freak event, an event beyond ultimate explanation but which set in motion a string of "accidents" that ultimately, over the course of a billion years, led to all that we witness today – that kind of worldview takes more than hard raw "faith" to embrace; it takes a commitment to intellectual insanity and willful delusion.

How else can I explain the fact that some people are very serious about packaging irrationality as though it were science?

No doubt atheists will scowl at this characterization, insisting that I'm not advancing an argument and that I'm just calling them names. Heck, some Christians might even say that – which goes to show that some Christians don't know their Bible.

Atheists will also say things like: "We're only interested in the truth," and, "We are the ones who let the evidence speak for itself."

Of course, atheists aren't being honest about their so-called neutrality. Unlike Christian theists, who willingly admit to beginning with God, atheists try to camouflage their belief in the supremacy of chaos by appealing to the "science" of evolution.

But when you break down their "scientific" jargon, you are ultimately left with only one explanation: That this world was created by a freak accident, and the world will continue to evolve by chance. Nothing more. Nothing less. Just chaos.

This is what they call being "honest" with the evidence.

I call it sheer idiocy.

That's not to say that atheists aren't intelligent. They are. In fact, many of them are probably brilliant in terms of measurements like IQ. But that just goes to prove that intelligence and wisdom are two very different things.

To insist dogmatically that God cannot be a rational explanation but rather that the evidence points to a universe governed by "natural selection" – which is code for raw dumb matter making a "choice" to either advance or regress (raw unintelligent matter making a choice? And they call us delusional?) – isn't just a bizarre explanation; it is absurd.

As to calling the atheists names, I will willingly admit to doing that – in the biblical sense.

The Bible says that "the fool has said in his heart, there is no God."

So my characterization of atheists as fools isn't intended to be caustic, overtly offensive or excessively harsh. It simply describes the nature of someone who willfully denies the message behind the evidence and sells it as science.

Anyone who purposefully denies the existence of ultimate reality – even though it is staring them in the face day in and day out – and then makes a career out of telling others there is no God because the "evidence" doesn't support it, is not simply misled or misguided.

No. That person is a fool.

In one sense, atheists are akin to a man who stubbornly insists that his house isn't burning, and convinces his family to stay put, even though the first responders are screaming, "Get out of that burning house!" This insane man is putting his family in grave danger as the flames threaten to engulf the whole lot.

It isn't the evidence that has convinced him there is no fire. It is his insanity.

Atheists are very much like that: Willfully blind, deaf and dumb to the evidence. And they are making a career out of promoting foolishness in the name of science.

Perhaps the biggest problem with atheists is their claim to be "rational" even though it is almost impossible to have a rational debate with them. And that is because they spend all their time using reason against the rules of reason, using science against the basis for science. Ultimately, they are spending all their time suppressing the colossal testimony that the proof of God's existence is the impossibility of the contrary.

There simply is no rational justification for believing that all that is, is the result of blind chance and chaos.

But I will give them credit for at least one thing.

Atheists have done a stellar job selling a delusion as though it were rational. Because to be able to sell millions of books, all with the aim of telling the world that there is no God or that belief in God is the reason for all the problems in society, doesn't just take an ordinary huckster. It takes a certain kind of huckster, a "delusionist" and an incredible marketing machine.

Of course, it would be a lot funnier – and a lot more honest – if they had the decency to wear the jester's costume. That way we'd all know they are just fools.

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