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It never was about science or about proof!

What is really the issue? What is really the problem? What is really at the bottom of the irreligious in their dismissal and rejection of the God of the bible?

Let’s play a game shall we? I am going to play the role of an honest atheist in trying to illustrate my proposal for the above question.

My name is Othello, and I am a staunch atheist.

Othello: “Dear Christians, you see, it never was about science, it never was about evolution, it never was about any other thing I projected to show how stupid and inconsistent and untruthful your religion is. It never was about your bible, it never was about the fact that there is a talking snake, it never was about the fact that you actually believe that a fish had Jonah for lunch and 3 days later shat him out. No Christian, you have missed the ball. It never was about the fact that there are 2 different genealogies in the bible, it never was about the fact that you said that we are all sinbound and unable to please God. It never was about the fact that your god told his people to commit a genocide of galactic proportions or that your god is a racist or that your God commanded the killing of animals to appease him, it never was about the fact that you actually tried to make me believe that people used to live 969 Years, No, It never was about the fact that in the book of Deuteronomy, there was a pissed off donkey that got so angry, it became the 2nd non-human species to have a propositional and intelligible conversation with a human being ,to digest a talking snake was bad enough but to chew on a talking donkey, good night, I loved those comical stories it gave me so much ammunition to make you seem so unintelligent, but it never was really about that, no.

 Neither  was it about the fact that your god invented the slave trade and that you god has a chauvinistic view of woman, it never was about the fact that you believed in angels and demons, No, it never was about the fact that I accused you of having your bible full of mistakes and contradictions, it never was about the fact that to this day there is still no verifiable evidence for the existence of your god, no, it never was about the fact that your God hates homosexuality, or that your God is a child abuser in wanting to Kill his own son for other people. No, you missed the ball as usual.

Othello continues: “You see, Even if science were to turn around tomorrow with the latest and most accurate findings that are verified and proven that the earth is indeed young, and that evolution is indeed not possible at all but that previous mistakes were inferred into the theory, Even if science were to say with conclusive evidence that the evidence supports the notion that the earth was created  and that the being behind the creation was responsible for the design of the creation. Even if evolution were to turn around and sing a new song tomorrow and tell us that human beings can be traced back to a single human parent from which all humans come from, even if science could capture a tornado, or capture a lightning bolt and do a dna test and discover that these elements are designed and have a purpose and are saturated with the fingerprints of a being which we must conclude to be God.

 Dear Christian, it does not matter to us atheists, because it never was about science either, it never was about evolution, those also were ammunition we used. No, dear Christian, we would simply then turn our backs on science and treat it the way we treat you, we would dismiss science and degrade it to an unreliable source of information, we would reject the scientists who have arrived at the conclusions and accuse them of improper scientific methodology having a theistic agenda, because it never was about science, it never was about evolution, it was always about Jesus. The truth is, we know, we will never ever admit, but we know that there is a whole in our heart the size of God in the shape of a cross that we will try to fill with the next best alternative and the next best explanation.

Dear Christian, you simply don’t understand, even if some of our number, the likes of Richard Dawkings, Stephen Hawkings, Dan brown etc etc etc, those forerunners of the atheistic cause were to publish works saying that there is a God and that God is creator, and designer, and if they were to publish works, works that are a rebuttal of their own previous works with explanations and proofs of why they were wrong all those years, even then, dear Christian, we would turn on them, those men and woman and scientists who provided bunkers for us, men that we use to hide behind and that we use to copy and paste onto this forum, Yes, we would turn on them like a flash and treat them the way we treat you, dismissing them and looking for an alternative bunker because it never was about science, it never was about evolution, it was always about Jesus and that insatiable appetite we have to convince ourselves that surely it was a scam. You see, if the abovementioned atheists received public baptisms and sent out an international apology for scientific misappropriation and misleading the human species, we would simply call Richard a tool, and we would mock the others. None of us would sit down and do an honest day’s introspection and give Christianity a second chance, none of us would doubt our doubts, that would just be embarrassing.

Can you imagine what that would look like? After we said the things we said, for us to simply just change our minds because the scientific world changed its mind, No, we would not do that, we would still hate the God we are so desperate to ignore and find ourselves with an insatiable preoccupation and an inability to ignore, and we would continue with that unsustainable hobby of persuading ourselves everyday “He does not exist, He does not exist, he does not exist”

Othello’s conclusion: “You see dear Christian, even though we know that science has not proven anything contrary to what you Christians believe, we chose like you to believe that one day science will prove evolution conclusively, we believe that one day science will prove conclusively that all religion was a man made construct of macro management. We would rather believe today while science is aligned to what we want it to be aligned to that science will come through for us, than believe that you Christian were right, that I am a sinner, that I am broken, that I am unable to mend myself wholly, that I need a saviour, that I want to go to heaven, that there is more to life than the reception of the senses, No, I will hope in science today and tomorrow and I will create bunker after bunker and hide behind that bunker till my final breathe.”

SilverBack: “Thanks Othello, that was enlightening, could you imagine if all atheists were as honest as you? Wow!!! You know, Othello as a human being, I cannot invest myself in something I am not interested in. And I cannot be interested in something that I do not believe in, and I cannot believe in something that has absolutely zero impact on my life, or anybody else’s life, and I cannot claim to be satisfied that “nothing” has the power to cause so much beauty and order and behavioural regeneration. Consequently, I always wondered how do atheists like you sustain your disposition and keep up the interest, the investment and the passion in your problems with Jesus? Because I know that you are human beings. Now, I have a much clearer perspective and now I understand, and for that, I Thank you Othello.”

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