My dear atheist

We must be kind to everyone. And my Spiritual Teacher told me that kindness comes in different forms. We must show kindness even to the atheists by defeating their arguments. Here's something I ripped off from a thread where I had a head to head with an atheist. I usually can tolerate a lot of nonsense in the web but this is a different thing. May God forgive me if I was a little angry. Eventhough He doesn't need me to defend Him in this way, as I am very incapable of parroting my Teacher's wisdom about God, but I pray that he accepts my anger as a circumstance of my love no matter how little it is.

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To me atheism is not just the belief that there is no God, it is a belief that the atheist is God. The universe cannot exist without a controller. Even science has to admit that a cause is needed to achieve an effect. A bang must have a trigger. Who pulled the trigger? Unless everything is random, everything just happened to appear out of nowhere. So that explains the many patterns all around us. It just so happens that the sun keeps rising in the east and sets in the west. It just so happen that the sun is there and the earth revolves around it with just the right amount of distance. Even a simple leaf that has a system of functional veins has a design. The existence of the designer is there in the design. There is a controller.

Science, the god of the atheist/humanist, may not call it God, but they cannot deny the need for a source. The atheist keeps on asking "But where is God? There is no God, show me where God is". Well, God is a person basically and like any other person, He doesn't force himself to people who doesn't want to see Him. I mean He is the Lord of the Universe and who are we for Him to show Himself just by our sheer whim? It is said that the atheist's vision that there is no God even comes from God Himself. God doesn't need the belief of atheists like some politician campaigning around town: “love me, believe in me.” God does not cease existing just because some atheist thinks so. God is not affected by disbelief, but the non-believer is.

If an atheist is happy in his life even while denying God's existence then it is only due to God's grace. Each one of us, including the atheists can't even digest our own food. We don’t consciously make our hearts beat do we? How can the atheist deny this? What evidence does he have that God is not helping or loving Him? He is breathing air which he did not create right? The only thing they can point out is "God is not here in front of me." But how can they disprove absolutely that there is no God aside from his not being visually present?

Not many of us have ever been to the moon and seen its surface with our own eyes, yet we believe. Who among us here have actually seen a virus with our naked eyes, yet when he gets a flu he believes the invisible cause? The answer is because we believe in certain authorities. I've never been to the US but I’m a fool to say that there is no USA just because I’ve not seen it with my own two eyes. I have to believe people who'd actually been there. I have to believe in their authority.

So it all boils down to belief in authorities. An atheist trusts his own perfection. He believes he is perfectly intelligent, his eyes are perfect that it can see anything, his senses are the valid source for absolute truth. He believes ironically that he is an authority in God, that he can judge His existence or non-existence. Like there are people who had been to the moon, there are people who had seen God. Now can an atheist deny this? How can he say "you have not seen God, because I've not seen him. I know everything, there's simply no possibility anyone can see God because I myself cannot see Him!" That's basically the mindset of an atheist. I know because I was an atheist. He is so full of belief in himself. Jesus said blessed are those who are pure at heart for they will see God. Who can deny this? Only those who are after being pure at heart, have not seen God are actually qualified to question this. Unless you are pure at heart and still God has not appeared in front you will your conclusion be of any value. Jesus is an authority in God just like Neil Armstrong is an authority on the moon. Unless you have been in the moon yourself will you be able to question Armstrong's revelations. Jesus said be pure at heart first.

If you want to see God, if you’re not just so envious of God that you'd actually want to see Him, then strive to purify your heart. And when it is pure enough and still you don't see Him, then be an atheist, but until then, you are just some frog on a well, denying the existence of the ocean.

Haribol, dear friend.