Atheists are Polytheists

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Title: Atheists are Polytheists

Created on: Thu Jan 24 10:54:00 -0500 2008

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Abstract: ... itself?  But if it is something else, then we want to have proof of its existence.             The same applies to Evolution.  Now evolution, scientifically speaking, is “[t]he gradual process by which the present diversity of plant and animal life arose from the earliest and most primary organisms…”  (Concise Science Dictionary)  But the Evolution of the atheists is not this process; rather it is the agent which brings about the process.  Only in this unscientific and imaginary sense can evolution take the place of God; otherwise, a believer who accepts the theory of evolution can easily reconcile it with his belief in God, by saying that that process is itself the work of the Creator.             There are, on the other hand, atheists who say in a misleading way that they believe in God; but on inspection, their god turns out to be the god of the atheists.  I am referring here to people like Einstein, who is said by some to have been a believer, but whose god was in fact not God the Creator in whom we all believe.  Einstein declared that he believed in “Spinoza’s god,” i.e. in a god that is identical with the universe, and who does not thus interfere from outside in its working.  “The man who is thoroughly convinced of the universal operation of the law of causation, “says Einstein, “cannot for a moment entertain the idea of a being who interferes in the course of events.” [Quoted by Hans Kung, Does God Exist?  Vantage Books, 1981, p. 629]             Thus all atheists are in fact polytheists, or mushriks.  A mushrik, according to Islam, is one who believes in a god or gods besides, or to the exclusion of, the one true God, or who worships such gods, even if he a... [Full Article...]