Better for them to deny the mind--and with it rationality, truth, and science itself--than to admit the soul. Once again, the secularist manifests the very dogmatism of which he accuses the religious believer, and in rationalizing it is willing to contemplate absurdities of which no religious believer has ever dreamed.
The undermining of Christian faith, systematically pursued by Western cultural and political elites, does not lead to some sort of secular Utopia with its own __eutral_ morality, but to the rise of religious beliefs other than Christianity, which will bring their own _ often opposite - moral values. On the clean slate of atheism anything can be written, even sharia law.
The Amorality of Atheism
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The undermining of Christian faith, systematically pursued by Western cultural and political elites, does not lead to some sort of secular Utopia with its own __eutral_ morality, but to the rise of religious beliefs other than Christianity, which will bring their own _ often opposite - moral values. On the clean slate of atheism anything can be written, even sharia law.
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