Phillip Adams, what a naughty boy you have been. Fancy using all those sexual innuendos to pour scorn on God. So risqué…. but oh so clichéd. This might once have been considered brave, bold and pioneering, but no more. Such atheistic writings are now de rigueur. It’s on trend and chic amongst the cafe latte and Chardonnay set. Atheistic rants have been passé for so long that they are no longer seen as being avant guarde. They have become as boringly predictable as they are prevalent, because the atheist slant is almost the only world-view that the Western media will permit these days. 

There are two reasons for this. The first is because of the appalling behaviour shown by sexual addicts who have hidden in our Christian religious institutions. It’s hard to imagine behaviour that is less Christ-like. Thinking about this prompts me to share a personal conviction: Nothing good seems to happen to Christianity when it becomes institutionalised. That’s why it is important to seek a relationship with Jesus rather than religion.

The second reason why atheism is now so prevalent, is that the media and the humanities departments of our universities have led a relentless attack on Christianity for decades. They have done this in the name of rationalism and to facilitate the deification of self. Paradoxically, this has resulted in a collective “closing of the mind” that forbids people asking the “why?” questions about life. It is now hard to find anyone talking about God in the media unless they are atheists. This is strangely odd when you think about it.  If the public’s view of God only comes from those who have had no experience of God, we have indeed embraced a scary “brave new world.”

Adams has given voice to an immature understanding of faith. This has enabled him to build a “straw image” of God, presumably because he finds a straw image easier to burn. He doesn’t talk of a God who loves us and seeks a personal relationship with us; he talks of a god who scowls at us for our moral imperfections, one who would be quite unable to keep all the spinning plates swirling in the cosmos, and who would find it impossible to remain abreast of all that is happening. I’m compelled to ask: Who on earth told him that God was so pathetic, a mere projection of himself. The Bible certainly doesn’t teach this. Psalm 19:1-4 gives us a clue about the motive behind the seemingly super-abundance of the cosmos: It is to show off God’s glory – pure and simple.

Adams will not acknowledge any reason for why faith in God is intellectually reasonable. His mind is closed, and that’s a pity because there are some remarkable things to consider. Here’s one of them: There are four elementary forces that have built the universe. Two of them are the electromagnetic force and the gravitational force. If the relative strengths of those forces had varied by as much as one 10,000 trillion, trillion, trillionth, we would not have life on any planet. (This is but one of a number of similar statistics.)  So, how many trillionths would it take to persuade anyone that life was intended?  How long can we shrug our shoulders and say that everything came from nothing as a result of nothing – and pretend that such a position is academically defensible?

Atheism has yet to show that it is able to be a major force for good in bringing civility to a nation. We didn’t see it in Stalin’s purges, (he killed 21 million of his own countrymen), or with China’s Chairman Mau (who starved to death 47 million of his own people). Neither did we see it in the brutal, murderous actions of Pol Pot in Cambodia, or with Hitler in the Second World War. Nations that have generally fared well (in which people are freer and more prosperous) are those that have embraced authentic Christianity. I think we are beginning to see the consequence of Australia letting its Christian heritage slip between its fingers in the lack of civility that is now appearing in society.

So, if you are seeking hope and truth, may I commend the real deal to you – Jesus.