Let’s Talk About That ‘Magic Sky Daddy’ Atheists Keep Bringing Up
Talk to an atheist about God and sooner or later (but probably sooner), you will hear the charge that people who believe He exists are actually just unable to explain some natural phenomenon, so they invent a “Magic Sky Daddy” or some variation thereof.
It should be instantly noted that such a charge assumes that God does not exist and therefore any explanation that is offered must by definition be inadequate, if not outright looney-bins. The charge is not infrequently delivered with a sneer, so it’s not uncommon to think your conversational partner is mocking you.
Erik Manning of Is Jesus Alive does an impressive job of white-boarding the multiple flaws in the “God-is-the-Magic-Sky-Daddy” argument. Check it out in the following brief (4:21) video, then post your thoughts in the Comments section.
Atheists think believers view the Bible as a source for explaining physical reality. This view of the Bible, as an authorative high school science or history text is the fatal flaw in their understanding of the faiths of the Judeo-Christian traditions. They are truly ignorant and ought to take their arguments more seriously. Why?
Because, on the whole, Jews and Christians believe that the Bible is a book of metaphysical truths that answer such questions as… what is good? what is evil? On what principle(s) should people order their communities? What is the meaning of life, and are the moral and spritual truths promulgated by God authoratative? These are the questions science (and therefor atheists) cannot answer.
They are tiring.
Michael, it is not atheists who claim that the bible is a source for explaining reality, Christians do. You all want to pick and choose what yuo want to claim is literal or metaphor and surprise, you contradict each other.
Nope, not on the “whole” at all, Michael. And Christians don’t agree on what is good or evil, being unable to agree on what is “sin”. You all come up with your own list and ignore the parts of the bible that are inconvenient. No reason to take any of you seriously at all, especially since you can’t even convince each other your version is the only right one.
Vel, aren’t you taking us seriously by spending time reading HillFaith and composing comments here?