Whole Reason

Recently around the world, scores of peo­ple gath­ered together to cel­e­brate the birth­day of a man, whom they revere. The orga­niz­ers called it a  “global hol­i­day that tran­scends sep­a­rate nation­al­i­ties and cul­tures.” They said prayers and sang hymns, includ­ing O life that mak­est all things new, , and Morn­ing on morn­ing. The hol­i­day was, of course, Dar­win Day.

Chris­tians have long main­tained that humans were cre­ated to wor­ship God and in the absence of a true faith in Him, humans will look to a vari­ety of sub­sti­tutes. For a time, athe­ists and human­ists seemed to be con­tent with merely plac­ing them­selves or pos­si­bly the abstract idea of sci­ence in the place of a deity.

It seems that many have con­verted to the newly orga­nized reli­gion of Dar­win­sim, in essence wor­ship­ing a man who died hun­dreds of years ago. But don’t mock them, they make no claims that he was res­ur­rected, that would be silly, instead they sim­ply say that Darwin’s ideas will “unite a global com­mu­nity.” They want to “honor his ques­tion­ing spirit” and “cel­e­brate his courage in speak­ing out for the truths he believed.”

One of Darwin’s wor­shipers praised his name:

…he left us a tur­bu­lent world of per­pet­ual change. Ever since Dar­win, we live in a world of sto­ries. The story of that change will be
told for­ever. We’ll never get tired of read­ing and reread­ing it. First Dar­win jour­neys alone from sur­mise to sun­rise. Then the truth dawns on us all.

Of course, this is just the opin­ion of a Chris­t­ian on the out­side. It’s not like any athe­ists have noticed the evan­ge­lis­tic and reli­gious nature of their fel­low nonbelievers.

Athe­ists claim to value rea­son above blind faith and indi­vid­u­al­ity above the lock-step cer­ti­tude of reli­gion. My own rejec­tion of faith, I hoped, would allow me to indulge in wicked thoughts and pork-based dishes. I hoped I could, for­ever, avoid hal­lelu­jah get-togethers, group­thinky orga­ni­za­tions and
con­strain­ing labels.

Yet, these days, athe­ists are orga­nized. They’re activists. They will prob­a­bly sue you. They have become exas­per­at­ingly earnest, hope­lessly seri­ous and unnec­es­sar­ily pushy.

They have, in other words, become as tedious as Joel Osteen. And there are few greater sins.

…

Now, I may pos­sess the same level of

idi­otic non-thinkers.

Over at HotAir, Allah­pun­dit has made his own per­sonal unbe­lief well known. He has also made his feel­ings known about the evan­ge­lis­tic athe­ism — their hol­i­day tree, co-opting of gay rights lan­guage, whin­ing to be included in interfaith ser­vice, their hood orna­ment sym­bol, their desire to have a pros­e­ly­tiz­ing mes­sage at a Christ­mas dis­play, and of course their own Sun­day School.

Obvi­ously, some athe­ists rec­og­nize the new reli­gious fer­vor with which mod­ern day non-believers are attempt­ing to spread their non-faith. For those of us that are believ­ers, it comes as no sur­prise. Athe­ism was only a reac­tion to a belief sys­tem. It is attempt­ing to form itself into an actual belief sys­tem, but in doing so it only demon­strates the point of Chris­tians even more. Athe­ism can only attempt to serve as anti-Christianity or pseudo-Christianity.

It co-opts prac­tices and ideas from the belief sys­tem it dis­agrees with so vehe­mently. Human­ity was made with a sense of the divine and a void that is only filled through inter­ac­tion with some­thing beyond our­selves, many athe­ists seem to have under­stood this fact, but instead of choos­ing to wor­ship God, they have cho­sen to cre­ate their own by deify­ing them­selves or one of their own.