Thank God for Atheists!

I want to verbally express my gratitude to God for His awful wisdom in giving us the freedom to chose. Intrinsic to choice is change. We must change in order to learn, so as to become more like God, to acquire more of His character and motivation. Love must be learned. It cannot be bestowed by fiat.

I am convinced that the vast majority of humanity is content to cower in passivity. Those who shelter themselves in activist inactivity are functional unbelievers, because they lack the convictions of conscience which would drive them to change the world. People tend to assume that a position of neutrality on their part will make them immune to the deprecations of evil. Then there are the few among us who are just like the child who is considered the black sheep of the family, who are intelligent enough to recognize this unspoken hypocrisy, and take up the negative position like a mantra and take it to the limits of it's darkest implications.

Atheists tell us there is no God. Atheists realize, that if the sovereign who rules a people of love and peace disappears, then those same people are defenseless. Atheists cannot help but see vulnerability as tacit permission to assert the full burden of their dark theology, expecting their victims to assume the reins of blackest despair. This view's most vigorous proselytizers have lost all hope, so they feel no one else is entitled to any, either. The last vestiges of the intimate knowledge of God, in the form of believers, must be eradicated, so as to secure their own position as the wicked gods of the universe. In their minds, once the christians are gone, they will be vindicated. (Sounds like hell to me!)

Where is the good in that dark scenario? Where is God when christians die at the hands of atheists? What lessons are there worth thanking God for from the godless? How can we answer the hopeless who desire us to feel the same?

We can learn a lot from atheists. First of all, we are woken up to motivation. We have hope, but do we even know or understand why? How can we be driven by a love we do not know by experience?Atheists provide us with opportunity to suffer with those who suffer, as God has done for us in an evil world. Fanatical atheists are a lesson in themselves, with an in-your-face attitude exemplifying the poisonous character traits which are the culmination of godlessness. Atheists teach us that when we blame God for evil, we are, in reality, attempting to justify our own. Atheists make it obvious that the truth requires a commitment to it's defense, and that Good should have a mind and voice so that He can live among us.

The most important lesson that atheists can teach us is that we can stare into the gibbering face of hell................and laugh. God is so much more powerful than this. For those with the courage to claim His promises, your inheritance is waiting for you.