Grosey's Messages

Atheist or Agnostic? Occasionally someone tells me that he is an atheist (doesn’t believe in God) or an agnostic (not sure there is a God).  Such skepticism is rooted in one of three things: 1. Intellect. Most skeptics would like for you to think their problems are intellectual. However, few people have ever given God that much thought. They don’t care that much about him. Honest intellectual skepticism is almost nonexistent. 2. Emotions. Much skepticism is roofed in emotional experiences. The person had a bad experience with some person (a parent, preacher, friend) or group who was closely associated or identified with religion. Their disappointment and rejection of the person/group led to their disappointment in and rejection of God and Christianity. They never separated their feelings from the facts. So they threw the baby out with the bath water. 3. Morals. Most skepticism is rooted in immorality. The person wants to run their own life, and the most comfortable way to do that is to deny God. Their skepticism is not real. It is a smokescreen to cover up their sin. The real tragedy with most skeptics is that they have never really tried to find out the truth about God. They have almost no firsthand knowledge of the Bible. They have never read it for themselves. They deal in secondhand knowledge, hearsay evidence, and distorted ideas about the Bible, God, and the church. As someone said, “Atheists can’t find God for the same reason a thief can’t find a policeman.” Aldous Huxley was a British novelist who wrote Brave New World (1932), and was a grandson of “Darwin’s Bulldog,” T.H. Huxley. Aldous Huxley, in his 1937 book Ends and Means, admitted that his atheism and the rejection of a meaningful universe were largely motivated by a desire to avoid a specific system of morality, particularly regarding sexual freedom. “I had motive for not wanting the world to have a meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption. The philosopher who finds no meaning in the world is not concerned exclusively with a problem in pure metaphysics, he is also concerned to prove that there is no valid reason why he personally should not do as he wants to do, or why his friends should not seize political power and govern in the way that they find most advantageous to themselves. . . . For myself, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation, sexual and political.”

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