Atheistic protesters show God is for real

Joined a protest movement lately? It’s become a bit of a popular pastime. What intrigues me is the increase in secular protests about social issues and injustices, such as the #MeToo movement. Much of it comes from well-meaning, left-wing liberals and humanists who passionately champion noble causes demanding justice and equality for all. Which is wonderful.

But do they stop to consider the irony of it all?

How can you sincerely oppose social injustice such as racism or violence against minorities, while you’re standing on a foundation that requires racist violence to explain how we got here? It’s like flying around the world to join a protest march about banning air travel.

Can atheistic protesters so quickly divorce themselves from the brutal evolutionary process that they believe has made them what they are? And that’s the dilemma faced by multitudes of liberal secular protesters who want the freedom to reject God and religion and yet passionately cling to some form of morality to justify their cause. But how can you be morally outraged, if all morality is “just pretending”?

As soon as you remove God, you’re left with an empty universe that runs on random chaos and blind chance. No purpose. No plan. No design. Your destiny is nothing more than to become compost with a high nitrogen content.

And yet still they protest with passion in spite of what they claim to believe. If they would just take a moment to examine their hearts, they might discover that their passion for justice is their own greatest proof to themselves that God is real. The reason why they care so much about justice is because God cares and He has made them in his image to be people who care.

Certainly evolution can’t take the credit for creating them that way because it cares for nothing and is indifferent to whether you live or die. It knows nothing of justice for the oppressed.

In fact, evolution actually requires brutal injustice for the superior race to conquer the losers and eliminate them.

As well, the secular worldview can’t be credited with making protesters morally virtuous because it doesn’t have any genuine morals.

Atheists can of course make up their own moral beliefs and meaning for life, but it carries a fatal flaw.

You can never escape the fact that you know you just made them up and can unmake them any time morality becomes inconvenient.

It becomes very difficult to have real moral conviction in something that has no substance. In this context, morality is nothing more than personal opinion or cultural preference.

The apostle Paul explains this moral issue in Romans 2. He writes that when non-believers follow their conscience and do the right thing, it’s because the requirements of God’s law are written on their hearts.

They can’t help caring in some way or other, because it’s built into them. So the next time you encounter a nonbeliever demanding justice, remind them that the source of their moral concern can only come from God. Tell them to have an inward look at their motives, and they may see the heart of God looking back at them.

Morgan Allan is chairman of the local board of the Christian Education

Commission.