Wise Guys

Consider this more a testimonial statement than a generalization ...

Every atheist I know has reasoned that God does not exist. I had never thought about this until reading "The Wise Man and the King." Every atheist I know thinks he/she is smarter/wiser than God and uses that "superior knowledge" to defeat Him. Each of them has so much pride in his/her wisdom that wisdom has become the stumbling block (as Paul says in Romans 3 and 1st Corinthians 1 the Jews' stumbing block is the Law and the Greeks' stumbling block is wisdom).

I can also see this pride of individual wisdom stemming from obsession of "freedom" — not freedom from oppression but freedom from virtues. Like Jerram Barrs said at the end of the last video in the Building Up Bridges series, freedom (for some) has come to mean freedom to do what we want, to ignore suffering of others and live life for ourselves.

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