During a recent debate at Oxford University, Professor Richard Dawkins (video HERE) – everyone’s favorite atheist – admitted that on a non-belief scale of 1 to 7 he’s only a high 6. In other words – he’s hedging his bets.
 
While his tone in this particular clip is less caustic than usual, Dawkins still projects that tone of arrogant intellectual superiority common to so many atheists. He assumes a monopoly on “reason” – yet his worldview is ultimately illogical, because it’s inconsistent with reality. Consider for a moment, if we all lived as if there were no God (no creation, no fall, no redemption, no eternity) what sort of civilization would emerge? With everyone just doing, you know… “whatever?”
 

 
Having knocked down all religious “guardrails,” the atheists’ fallback position has to be “Be good for goodness’ sake.” Good luck with that.
 

 
Well, at least Dawkins is reluctantly willing to consider the possibility that there’s an ever-so slight chance he could be wrong. Fellow-traveler Jürgen Habermas seems to concede even more. [Who? I know – I’d never heard of him either. That’s because we’re not pseudo-intellectual Europhiles…]
 
Professor Habermas is a German sociologist and philosopher with a penchant for Marx, Nietzsche and Freud. He’s one of those really smart people with too much time on their hands, endlessly pondering the meaning of life; “thinkologists,” who are always inventing new “isms” to describe our wacky human behaviors and beliefs. After decades of trying to reconcile reality with various convoluted world views, old Jürgen has actually come to realize that…

“Christianity, and nothing else, is the ultimate foundation of liberty, conscience, human rights, and democracy, the benchmarks of Western civilization. To this day, we have no other options… We continue to nourish ourselves from this source. Everything else is postmodern chatter.”

(Source: Happy Easter Jürgen @ To the Source)

 
So maybe even Dawkins will eventually arrive at the truth…

Darwin’s most prominent living advocate, Richard Dawkins, has admitted he wouldn’t want to live in a country operating by natural selection. He prefers living in a nominally Judeo-Christian society, one that still believes in the rule of law based on unchanging ethics, that grants him the freedom to operate his business of undermining the Judeo-Christian world view.

(Source: When Ethics “Evolve,” Beware @ Evolution News & Views)

 
No matter how much atheists would like to bypass historical realities and draft their own blueprints for human civilization, the fact remains that the nearer a society comes to following God’s plans for mankind, the more humane, compassionate, law-abiding, civil and prosperous it becomes. That’s the hole in their philosophy that intellectually honest atheists can’t ignore.
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Related:
 
The 5 ‘Ingenious’ Religious Concepts This Atheist Wants Secularists to Embrace ~ @ The Blaze. Here’s Alain de Botton, another non-believer who’s so oblivious to the Truth that he would shamelessly cherry-pick various religious traditions to establish a more structured form of atheism. The oxymoronic title of his new book is “Religion for Atheists.” 😯 Hey Alain – Why not give the real thing a try?