John 14:6

One thing I hear a lot from unbelievers, particularly strong secular humanists and atheists, is that religion is for the weak-minded. An “opiate for the masses”. It is a “crutch” that people who are easily duped or too mentally weak to survive in the “real” world have created to feel better about themselves.

People of faith, particularly Christians, have a victim mentality of sorts, they tell me. We need to feel bad about ourselves, and acknowledging that makes us feel better about our own lives. All our talk about “humbling” ourselves before God and falling to our knees is, in reality, the worst kind of arrogance. By doing these things, we are declaring we are better than others, more pious, more religious, more “worthy”.

I’ve heard all of these arguments, each articulated from a position of supposed knowledge and “rationality” by those who think they are so clever.

I believe the One True God said it best:

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools — Romans 1:22

These are all 100% false assumptions, of course, gripped tightly by a lost world searching for ways to diminish or dilute the belief in God. If you can discredit the followers of a belief, then by default that belief is false. And unfortunately, too many Christians allow themselves to be portrayed in this way.

I am a good, moral person. I do not suffer from any severe or chronic lack of self-confidence. I am well adjusted, college educated, well liked by coworkers and peers, possess a good sense of humor, and genuinely care for the plight of others. I would say that if you judged everyone’s heart and compassion on the planet, I would fair better than most. The point is, I am not a person who believes in God because of any personality defects, shortcomings, or pitfalls.

I believe because I have been given proof. I have sought after God with an open heart and He revealed Himself to me. No, not as a burning bush or with a noble voice (although that would be extremely cool!), but He has revealed Himself to me in ways that are very personal and special to me.

And there are many in the Faith exactly like me.

The issue is that despite all of my own preceived goodness, morality, and fairness in this life, everything we do on our own and in our own flesh is as filthy rags to a Holy God:

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. — Isaiah 64:6

While the above verse is certain to sound harsh to those who don’t want to believe, the fact remains that to God, everything us mere humans do is worthless. Who are we to Almighty God? We are His Creation, not His equal. We are not even close. In reality, we are mere specks of life in a vast universe.

The problem today is one of arrogance, pride, and disrespect. Only a truly prideful, arrogant person would dare to compare themselves to God! Today, atheists have declared “There is no God” and by doing so, they are propping themselves up as God. They rely on themselves, their own good works, their own morality, their own judgment, their own intellect. They will also claim that they have their judgment, morality and intellect solely by a random roll of the cosmic dice. Morality was awarded to humans on Earth on a roll of 6 on a 1d6!

If you break it down, it really is that preposterous.

Marooned in this belief, they will have to answer for their own sins.

In the end, it all comes down to faith. It is not weak-mindedness to believe in God. I acknowledge fully that God is greater than I am. Does that make me a weak person? If you just said yes, then why? Have you ever admitted that something is beyond your ability to overcome or control? Trigonometry? Quantum Physics? Anything you’ve never been able to understand? We all have something that we can’t understand, and we have no problems admitting it.

And the very fact that you claim no belief in God is: 1) FAITH and 2) PREPOSTEROUS.

To know there is no God would make you God, because you would know everything. So this knowledge would actually render your own belief system even more ridiculous than it already is.

So what’s different here?

It’s God. You don’t want to believe in God because that would mean you will answer to someone. You are responsible to a power greater than yourself. It is prideful to think you are in total control of your life. I have no problem putting my faith into a God who – if even you debate exists – would be infinitely greater than I am.

So am I wasting my time? I don’t think so. You can disagree with me all day long, but please don’t assume that because I believe in God that I am somehow weak mentally, or in search of some way to make my own walk on this planet more comfortable. Our Lord tells us repeatedly that life will not be comfortable and that believing and trusting in Him is a sure way to make it a little more uncomfortable.

God bless and keep you all.

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