I have noticed of late that when an atheist is confronted by one of the several paradoxes of logic that haunt atheism, instead of addressing the issue, the atheist finds it simpler to jettison logic. In such sad attempts, the atheist employs the very laws of logic he denies.
What desolation atheism eventually produces in the soul!
In the dry, dim, gray world where life has no author, hence no meaning, no purpose, no point, no escape, is a world so empty and unwelcoming that eventually even immaculate Reason herself gathers her white robes, quenches her bright torch, and wings away.
A short reminder of the law of logic is in order, and perhaps a word as to why, despite their great boast to be unsentimental and clear-eyed paragons of reason, those who abandon God find it increasingly difficult not to abandon nature, human nature, human virtue, and human reason as the implications of that first abandonment play out.
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