There are thinking people. Who thinks like this, who thinks like that. Of course, there are those who think they are thinking, but then they are not.
Do you know that no one is more religious than an atheist? I'm sure, it's true. Only his religion is nothingness, his sect is a community of nihilists. He believes in nothing so strongly that he might as well go down on his knees in front of it.
The atheist not only believes in faith, but considers it indisputable that God does not exist. This is his main dogma, his creed, because he believes that he thinks rationally. Yet if there is an irrational claim, then the denial of the Creator is exactly like that. For if ratio dictated (and nothing else), he/she would have to become a believer in the most bigoted way. I didn't invent the statement of a much smarter thinker than me, Blaise Pascal : "If you believe in God and there is no God, you have lost nothing. But if there is a God and you don't believe in him, you've lost everything."
That is: faith is a rational thing.
Of course, we who truly believe in God are not religious because we think this way. For us, the Creator is support, consolation, strength-giving holiness. But one could also believe in Pascal's method. Because you have to believe in something, and nothing is not something.
The atheist believes by faith that he is in control of his life, that there is no "superior being" above him. Mikhail Bulgakov's masterpiece The Master and Margarita to your attention When the president of TÖMEGIR, Berlioz and Hontalan , the poet proves to Woland (who incidentally is Satan himself) that there is no God and that man controls his own destiny. What does the devil say to that?
"In order for someone to manage, it is necessary to have precise plans for a somewhat not too short period of time. Allow me to ask you now: how can a person control things on earth if he cannot make a plan even for a ridiculously short period of time, let's say, a millennium... but that's still nothing: he can't vouch for his own tomorrow either!"
The atheist believes that it does. He furiously believes, as much as the inquisitors believed, that the enemies of the faith deserve to be killed. They believe so much that they look down on all believers, push them down, and treat them as ignorant idiots with some sort of pockmarked supremacy.
Of course, not all atheists are like this, but I have met few who are.
The atheist cannot, in his well-understood self-interest, deviate from his own belief, because otherwise he cannot live in his unlimited freedom - or indeed his freedom. If there are divine laws, you can't hate, fornicate, goof around with impunity, you can't hate without limits, you can't take someone else's (be it a wallet or even public money, someone's wife or husband), that is, everything that you find enjoyable would be limited.
The atheist declares with conviction that there is no God, because he has never seen him. On the contrary, he believes in landing on the moon, even though he was not there, and he believes in the atomic nucleus, even though he has never seen it either. He believes in oxygen, even though it can't be seen. In other words , he believes in what he likes, because he believes that everyone is his own deity.
Okay, believe what you want. He regrets it when it is too late, when he begs for a priest on his deathbed (as Kádár of Żókomc also did). But that's his problem. However, there are also aggressive villains among them, the sign of which is shown by defaming Christians and persecuting Christians. Most recently, the Hungarian Atheist Association took the courage to report a children's hospital for starting a chain of prayers for young patients.
Apart from the absurdity of forming a right to trample on the convictions of others, their action is also against the Basic Law. They violate the principle of freedom of speech, religion and conscience , which is impermissible in a state of law!
Atheist Society, stay out of other people's privacy!
(Cover photo: Scene from the Vígszínház performance of The Master and Margarita. Photo: jegy.hu)
