How Evil Works by David Kupelian

Author:David Kupelian
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Threshold Editions

From the beginning of human life until Darwin came along in the mid-19th century, human beings would step outside their homes and survey with their eyes and minds the wonders of nature.… Looking in every direction, we humans beheld not only fantastic complexity, diversity and order, but also the supreme intelligence behind creation, as brashly evident as the noonday sun.

This ubiquitous natural wonderland caused man to acknowledge and honor the Creator of creation, as Copernicus did when he wrote, “[The world] has been built for us by the Best and Most Orderly Workman of all.” Or as Galileo wrote, “God is known … by Nature in His works and by doctrine in His revealed word.” Or as Pasteur confessed, “The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator.” Or Isaac Newton: “When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.” 24

Since surveying the created universe makes the Creator’s existence so extraordinarily obvious, I often wonder whether atheists are really rebelling against God—or against religion. There’s a big difference.

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Although God and religion are two fantastically different things, they’re inextricably entwined in the atheist’s mind. Hitchens’s book is titled “God Is Not Great” and subtitled “How Religion Poisons Everything,” showing he equates “God” with “religion” from the get-go. Yet this is absurd. God is God, but even the most noble religion is populated by imperfect people—often confused, and sometimes corrupt or even crazy.

If atheists are genuinely against God, they have an unsolvable problem—unless they come to realize their error, as many do at some point in their lives. But if they’re rebelling against religion, then clearly they deserve a little slack.

After all, religion in the modern world is little short of a disaster. And I’m not talking just about the cancerous jihad movement spreading within Islam, or about evil committed around the world by all sorts of exotic religious movements, sects, and cults. Even within Christianity you have major scandals such as the Roman Catholic Church’s epidemic of child sexual abuse by predatory priests, 25 as well as the Protestant world’s abundance of high-profile scandals, sexual and otherwise. Then you have the absurdly unbiblical, leftist agenda of many so-called mainline Protestant denominations, including their outrageous attacks on Israel, the ordination of open homosexuals and lesbians as church leaders, and so on.

But even more troubling than these dramatic, headline-grabbing church scandals is the anesthetizing shallowness and superficiality of far too much of the modern Christian church.

One Saturday afternoon I was channel-surfing and ended up watching the notorious 2004 film Saved, a satire that mercilessly skewers evangelical Christianity and features in the lead role a vain, duplicitous, and downright mean teenage Christian girl. The movie has been understandably condemned by many believers.

Just for a lark, during commercials I flipped over to some of the religious television networks to catch a little “real” Christian programming.

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