Atheists Better Pray to God They're Right


Townhall ^ | May 13, 2007 | Doug Giles


Paul (not the lead singer of the Beatles, but the apostle Paul) states
that God has made Himself known, via creation, to all men. According
to the apostle, God's revealed Himself not just to Christians and to
Jews, but to every one everywhere (see Romans 1:18-21).


This means that from Jo-Jo the Brazilian monkey boy, to the Cameroon
pygmies, to the whiny lesbian agnostic smoking clove cigarettes at
Starbucks, to the beer swillin' dillweeds (What's up, dudes? I'll see
after I pen this column! Keep 'em cold.), to the brooding British
atheists, all people know God exists-even if they can't really put a
finger on some of the finer points of His person.


Yes, through what has been made, God has plastered on the souls of
earth's citizenry the general revelation that He's present. In
addition, they also know when they're being a jack ***** and when
they're being cool (more on that next week).


I know the above 411 hurts the atheists to hear, seeing that they've
staked so much of their imago on God's non-existence. But c'mon, you
know there's Someone "out there," so cut the crap, shave your goatee
and find some other way to pick up chicks-okay, James Dean?


Look, if Paul's right and people know that they know Him (even if it's
in some dull sense of the word), why do some trip over themselves and
tie their brains in knots in order to curb this knowledge? Why do
people go nuts looking for loopholes and supposed contradictions in
the scripture, hypocrisies within the church and some shared semblance
to an ape in order to convince themselves that God's not here, there
or anywhere and never has been nor ever will be?


Is it because . . .


They are Johnny Quest truth seekers looking to answer man's $64,000
question?


They are evolutionary luminaries uncommonly endowed with more smarts
than us poor cattle and are here to help us club foot our way up the
Darwinian ladder and away from such primal fairy tales? Or is it
simply because . . .


The existence of God, His standards and a day of personal
accountability really, really, jacks with their efforts at autonomy
and their chances of getting laid tonight?


The apostle Paul states it's the latter.


Atheists, according to Santo Pablo, have suppressed the truth because
God really cramps their style. It's hard to persistently indulge the
appetites of the flesh if there is a holy God to whom you must give
account. The truth is that all men, who have not bowed their knee to
God and His way, hate Him and are intrinsically geared against God. (I
know that's tight, but it's right)


Jesus put it forcefully up fallen humanity's tailpipe when He exposed
why men reject the knowledge of God when He said, "Men love darkness
rather than light because their deeds are evil. For everyone who does
evils hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds
should be exposed" (Jn. 3.19-20).


This is easy math, folks: A man who has no remorse and thus no desire
to repent from his sins is probably not going to be a big advocate for
the existence, person and work of God.


You know that all the various no-God arguments-which, to be sure, are
fun to debate and write about and blah, blah, blah-actually stem from
the root of the atheist's refusal to curtsy to what he already
internally knows is true. It is this denial and refusal to embrace the
general knowledge of God given through creation that officially
pisseth off the Lord thy God and puts the atheist in a precarious
position. My advice to my atheist buddies is this: you'd better pray
to God that you're right and that He doesn't exist-because if you're
wrong, eternity is going to be rough.


To be continued . . .


Doug Giles is the creator and host of The Clash radio shows, winners
of seven Silver Microphone Awards and two Communicator Awards in the
last three years, and a contributing columnist on Townhall.com.