"The fool has said in his heart, 'there is no God".
I don't think about or address atheism very much. Why? Over 90% of Americans, and probably about that same percentage of people around the world believe there is a God. Atheism is not much of a threat to Christianity. Never has been, and never will be. Historically, wherever atheism has been the official "religion", like China or Russia for instance, eventually Christianity makes a comeback and is stronger and more vibrant than before. Atheism as a system of belief has several problems. First of all, it is basically a negation of a positive, life-giving concept. People will embrace a negative for a time. But after a while, they want something positive to stand for, not just something to be against. Atheists have tried to build a positive case for their perspective. But ultimately, it is still a negative, and the positive contributions of atheism are illusionary. The negatives, on the other hand, are huge and a matter of historic record.
Sometimes I hear that tired, old, mistaken canard that more people have been killed in the name of religion than any other cause. The truth is a lot of people have killed others in the name of religion, even Christianity. I admit that, and it is a terrible shame. But I am happy to say that when people kill innocent people in the name of Jesus, they are going against His book and His explicit teachings (see Matthew 5:21,22,38,39, 43,44). However, when people kill in the name of atheism, it fits perfectly with a totally godless system. Afterall, if there is no God, there are no moral absolutes, and logically, anything is acceptable, including murder, especially mass murder.
Stalin, one of the most consistent atheists who ever lived, said that "if one person is killed it is a tragedy. If a million people are killed, it is a statistic." He alone killed millions more people than were ever killed by those claiming religion, and that's not even counting Mao Tse-tung and Pot Pol. A lot of people like to call Hitler a "Christian" but as someone who has literally read thousands of pages about him, I can tell you with great certainty, he was at best an occultist. He was not in any way a Christian. He did in fact put many fine Christians to death.
The truth is that atheism has killed many more people than all religions combined. It's not even close. That's the natural, logical outcome of atheism. This is one of the biggest problems that atheism has, but it is not the biggest. The biggest is that atheism which proclaims itself so rational, so intelligent, so logical, actually is foolish. As Psalm 14:1 points out, the person who says "there is no God" is a fool. Why? Because as someone so accurately pointed out to me years ago, atheism cannot be proven with any degree of certainty. When a person says "there is no God", how does he or she know that? In order to state that with certainty one would have to know everything. Really, this is a statement of faith. Unless someone knows everything and has been everywhere in the universe, one cannot say with certainty, "there is no God". Therefore, logically, rationally, intelligently, the best one can say is "I don't think or believe there is a God." One can be an agnostic. But no mere mortal knows enough to say, "there is no God". That is foolishness.
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