So Many Things Not Right About a Monument to Atheism - Granite Grok

So Many Things Not Right About a Monument to Atheism

If Atheist’s believe that there can be no God, or that there is no God, wouldn’t the absence of evidence of belief in God be a testament to the belief system of non-believers?  You know, the way darkness is evidence of the absence of light.  You need creation to make light, but darkness is just there.

I guess that wasn’t good enough for some atheists in Florida.  These clever folks have placed a monument to…Atheism.

A group of atheists unveiled a monument to their non-belief in God Saturday to sit alongside a granite slab that lists the Ten Commandments in front a Florida courthouse.

All in all, I don’t much care what they think they don’t believe in.  And I mean that sincerely.  I had my own brush with agnosticism, atheism, the search for non-faith, and so on.  It is alluring and you get your weekends off.   But it is aligned with progressivism, socialism, and state power over all things.  It lends itself to the kind of thinking we’ve got in Washington right now.

That men are above the law, even the laws of men.  They may pay lip service to the idea of God (or law) to fool the folks but they do not recognize any power greater than that which they create on earth.  Nothing is beyond them.  There are no rights of God nor of nature that they do not create or warp to their purposes.   Property, life, liberty all belong to them because it cannot belong to anyone else for them to rule as they would like.

And while autocratic governments have existed alongside God, so has at least one Republican form of government ours.  But Liberty and Atheism have never co-existed in any human society other than in the minds of atheists, in a way not much different from the way progressives believe that an all powerful government will create a man made heaven on earth.

So if they want to spend their money to put a monument to Atom Ant in front of a Florida Court House next to the Ten Commandments (to make a statement) and claim it is to remind them of the void in their lives, then there are at least a few people happier for it;  the people who sold the stone and the people who fashioned it.    But it seems to me that even atheists would have a prohibition against graven images seeing as the only way to be reminded of the  nothing is to have nothing to remind you that you are an atheist.

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