I recently
read a post that said something like: “Atheism is not a religion, it is simply
facing reality.”
The first
part of the quote expresses some truth. Atheism is not a religion, as it doesn't
involve any discipline of any kind, even intellectual. And religion involves disciplines. Why do I
say it doesn't involve intellectual discipline? Because it is simply a
negation. It doesn’t seek to discover truth, but denies gratuitously what
others claim to be truth. Denial as such, when limited to itself, does not
require any kind of intellectual discipline.
On the
other hand, the last part of the quote is definitely false. Atheism is not facing reality, it is escaping
reality. An atheist is too often like a man standing in the middle of a one-way
street, facing away from the traffic, and denying that there is a bus coming up
behind him, but refusing to turn around and look. If he did look, he couldn't change
the fact that the bus was coming, but he wouldn't want to change his own position
in the path of the bus. So he would rather deny the existence of the bus.
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