Idiocy: The Mind on Atheism

Speech is how human beings express their heart, mind and soul. Below is an example of a prominent atheist expressing his profound idiocy through the written word. This prominent atheist was a devout Christian until he entered a masters degree program on religion.

There are three features of Bible god that spoil Christian theology: (1) This god behaves like a furious toddler when it doesn’t get its way. (2) This god keeps a close watch on everything that every person does, says, and even thinks—or so plenty of Bible texts claim. I suspect that many of the devout don’t live as if this is true. (3) This furious toddler gets upset over trivia, instead of over great moral issues. Barker illustrates this in a major section of his essay. 

It is the atheist who is the furious toddler. One need not be Jew or Christian to appreciate the depth and breadth of biblical literature, or the profound, prolonged influence the Bible has had on the world via Christian Western Civilization.

Let’s go through the atheist’s three statements.

1. This god behaves like a furious toddler when it doesn’t get its way.

The idiocy expressed here is that all powerful God could be thwarted by an ancient tribe of barbarian Canaanites. Because idiocy is the mind on atheism, the atheists does not have the intellectual capacity to absorb and contemplate the biblical text in search of the truth. Discovering the truth takes an agile, determined mind.

2. This god keeps a close watch on everything that every person does, says, and even thinks—or so plenty of Bible texts claim.

Why would God who created the universe down to the molecule, atom, and quark, not keep close watch on his creation? Only a person whose mind is on atheism (an idiot) could speak such profound, raw ignorance.

A month ago I asked my students to look out the classroom window and tell me what they saw. One said, “I see the sidewalk.” Another said, “I see a car.”

“What I see is beauty,” I told them. For beyond the sidewalk and the car was a beautiful forest. In fact, the town had been carved out of thick forest. As my students mature and begin getting over themselves they will look out and see beauty.

Unfortunately, a person whose mind is on atheism (an idiot) never matures. The atheist is forever a toddler. The atheist will always see the car, or the concrete and never be aware of the beauty that is all around them, or the God who so lovingly created it.

3. This furious toddler gets upset over trivia, instead of over great moral issues.

This statement is the piece de resistance of atheist idiocy. First, it is infused by the idiocy expressed in items #1 and #2: God as a toddler and the expression of his profound love as trivial pursuit. Second, the atheist has no idea that God’s interest in moral issues is precisely because of his profound love for us. God has no need of morality. However for human beings, morality is critical.

Why can’t the atheist comprehend such simple, obvious biblical truths? Answer: idiocy is the mind on atheism.