In a previous blog (q.v.) I pesented one reason why the atheist is a “fool,” as the Psalmist said (Ps. 14:1): to know that God doesn’t exist, one would have to be God—in which event, he would cease denying His own existence.

Let me here mention something else about Christopher Hitchens and, on a lower level, people like Bill Marr.

The Psalmist says that the Fool “says in his heart, there is no God.” Notice those words, “in his heart.” By divine revelation, the Psalmist knows what the real person is like—he is a fraud. Out in the public he trumpets his disbelief. This gets him a hearing from his crowd. But in ‘his heart,” he has doubts and fears and has to keep telling himself that God doesn’t exist. If he wasn’t incessantly reassuring himself of what he knows is unknowable, he would fall apart in public.

Now, of course, such men will not admit their doubts publically. They would lose their prestige, which comes not from any knowledge or achievement, but from their seemingly “bold” denial of the existence of God. But the Psalmist has found them out!

Huxley gave the reason why he was an atheist—he said that if there is no God, then there is no standard of morality by which men will be judged. Each becomes his own standard. His goal was to help create a society where he could live as he pleases. One suspects as much from modern atheists. Their motives are all suspect.

So, my friend, don’t let Marr’s bombast or Hitchens’ sophisticated approach fool you—it’s still true that anyone who affirms that there is no God is a fool!