Or How the Godless Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Purposelessness of Meaninglessness

It is a telling irony that the godless types will incessantly ridicule the idea of Descartian dualism yet will ostensibly adopt wholesale the belief that human beings are merely mechanical contrivances with no will of their own, no meaning, no morality, no hope, and no motive, yet live lives in complete contradiction to that which they espouse. They are akin to conmen¹Think of types such as Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris here. who put on glasses that block out the red and blue spectrums of light, announce to one and all that the world is green, and then quietly and surreptitiously remove them in order to live in the real world and enjoy the many benefits of a full spectrum of color. As notoriety is apparently all that matters to the calculating barbarians roving to and fro within every stratum of our civilization, they too don the atheist glasses now being marketed by the conmen, have not the wit to remove them, and so go through civilization destroying all that claims to be blue or red. At least the dualist lives a life where his views are consistent and mutually reinforcing and he has therefore been instrumental in building the greatest civilization in all of human history. By contrast, the views of the godless types are inconsistent and mutually annihilatory and have played no instrumental part other than a corrosive one in the history of civilizations. I say 'godless types,' not 'atheist godless types,' because as is made clear here and here, what differentiates the atheist from the simatheist, agnostic, and apatheist is that he actually believes what he says and therefore he tragically commits suicide.

Prior to the universe coming into existence, if, as the godless contend (explicitly or implicitly, it matters not), there was no mind, it is meaningless to speak of there having been 'words' or 'thoughts.' According to godlessness, there is no reason (and zero evidence) to believe that words or thoughts existed prior to mindless, purposeless, meaningless, unguided processes bringing biological life into existence. Within the realm of all known biological life, the only species for which we have conclusive evidence that thoughts exist or have existed, is the species known as 'homo sapiens,' for it is the only one where we have evidence of thoughts committed to substance as words or pictures in a manner in which other members of the species can then understand those thoughts, share them, expand upon them, correct them, reject them, accept them, pass them on to subsequent generations, etc. In the view of the godless, what are referred to as 'thoughts' and 'words' (hopelessly circular though it may be) that accompany our species came about through mindless, purposeless, meaningless, unguided processes: all words and thoughts are merely the emanations of electrochemical processes occurring within the brain which is housed within the cranial vault. For most of the AGTs, the processes that brought about life fall under the rubric of 'evolution.' There are a very tiny few, such as Thomas Nagel, who rightly reject evolution as a plausible explanation for life, but as indicated, they are anomalies. All of the above follows ineluctably from the refusal to acknowledge that “God exists” is a veridical proposition.

Let us couple the previous with the belief that the age of the universe is estimated to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 14 billion years. If we analogize its age using a solar year, homo sapiens first appeared three minutes ago, which means that for 99.9994% of the time that the universe has existed up to this point, there is no reason to believe that minds, words, or thoughts existed. Of all the species of life that it is conjectured to have existed²Some sources indicate four billion, other sources five billion. We (understandably) have gone with the more conservative indication., homo sapiens represent 0.000000025% of them. The atoms of which the entire planet Earth is comprised represent 0.00000000000000000000000000013% of all of the atoms in the known universe. The atoms of all human beings who are living and have ever lived represent 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000007% of all of the atoms in the known universe. Finally, the atoms comprising your body, represent 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000007% of all of the atoms in the known universe. If one is going to subscribe to the godless view of the universe and attempt to ascribe any description to the existence of homo sapiens in general, or to one's self in particular, it can only be 'infinitesimal cosmic accidents.' Mindless, purposeless, unguided processes brought these insignificant number of atoms together for no purpose whatsoever. Any 'worth' ascribed to human beings by an AGT above and beyond any of the other 1.5 million living animal species thus far catalogued, species which, let us not forget, like homo sapiens, are collections of an insignificant number of atoms, is by definition arbitrary and not worth the breath that was involved to utter it or the resources it cost to print it or transmit it. In essence, it amounts to one clump of atoms that represents 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000007% of the atoms in the universe proclaiming to another clump of atoms that represents 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000007% of the universe that this or that is 'so.' To a mind that is hinged to reality, it is absurd beyond all endurance, but to the AGT, it is par for the course.

Hence, not only is a godless type speaking to the 'meaning' of words hopelessly circular and infinitely regressive, but further, it is absurd in the extreme for them to ascribe relevance to any words: they themselves are compelled to view words as the emanations of clumps of neurons (the brain) from a species (homo sapiens) that can only be accounted as an infinitesimally improbable cosmic accident which resulted from unguided, purposeless, and meaningless processes. Only those completely unhinged from reality would refuse to affirm the proposition "God exists" and then turn around and claim that words have relevance or meaning. It is no wonder then that they are incapable of promulgating a worthwhile vision for humanity in any of those arenas³Morality, meaning, motive, hope. important to establishing civilization. The bringing to the table of debate the world view of the atheist godless type is akin to somebody announcing to you upon first meeting them: "I'm an insufferable fool, I'd like to debate with you about why the merits of foolishness exceed those of wisdom." Apologies for running the poor phrase thus, but only a fool would proceed. Whenever an AGT speaks on matters of import concerning a well-ordered society with anything other than a preamble of something akin to: "Please ignore what I say for all words have no meaning, purpose, or relevance per what I espouse to be true.", you can be absolutely certain that they don't actually believe the bilge that is spilling out of their mouths and that they are dishonestly suppressing the truth of their perspective. For them to protest otherwise is as bald of a contradiction as can be imagined.

When one hears the cries of 'reason' from the AGTs as to why they reject, in particular, Christ, those familiar with the writings of the Puritans cannot help but recall what the divine John Durham said:

Christ is pretended, while all the while self is intended.

Which, rendered in godless speak becomes:

Reason is pretended, while all the while the self and immoral living is intended.

All of the above proceeded according to first principles. It didn't rely upon testimony from any of the godless clerics which pollute our civilization. However, to demonstrate that the horrors relayed above are consonant with those who the typical mindless follower of godlessness rely upon, I offer the reader the following truly horrifying quotes:

And I close with a quote from the inimitable Dr. Johnson, who going on three centuries ago anticipated the godless monstrosities roaming freely amidst the ruins of Christendom (underlining added):