Irwin Schrodinger summed up the ultimate conclusion of Atheistic thinking in his oft quoted little book from 1944.. What is Life.. "We are God"..! It demonstrates a couple of very fundamental things..
1. There is no world view we can take which actually removes God.. He just IS.. That person ends up in an un-winnable war with an immovable truth. "In the beginning God.." ends up being established as an irrefutable fact by the very process of argument designed to disprove it.
2. In embarking on this futile attempt to remove God from individual thought you end up with a far more sinister consequence. Even if that person does not believe "he is God".. they or any of their 'converts' to the idea who posses a power to do harm (weapon) run the considerable gauntlet of playing God over the vulnerable and defenceless.
You see its not just Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Milosevic etc.. who are 'evil' people. The weapon does not even have to be an Atomic Bomb, IED or AK47.. a box knife or even a position of temporal authority is sufficient. Evil is deep within me, you and everyone by simply choosing self as the ultimate authority for life and not the one who designed, planned and made it. Which is why he alone is the only legitimate authority.
Now this is the weird bit. It doesn't make any difference if the person with the weapon is an out an out theist.. shouting "God is great".. or a Priest of Holy Orders.. The act or threatened act of harm to the defenceless and vulnerable is a declaration.. "I am God".. Same meaning.. Playing God. I am not saying Atheists alone are evil.. just that Atheism is self defeating by failing to define and answer the real problem and religion has the same problem.. This 'evil' is a deeply rooted potential we all share.. the worst of the human weaknesses.
All of which points to the real necessity for an absolute morality.. We cannot be trusted to make it up.. we will fail and have done in the past. That's why the Bible has unique relevance and significance.
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