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Douglas Wilson [PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1455379438016734&set=a.1400888423465836.1073741828.1400753406812671&type=1&theater]
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QUOTE: If there is
no God, then all that exists is time and chance acting on matter. If this
is true then the difference between your thoughts and mine correspond to the
difference between shaking up a bottle of Mountain Dew and a bottle of Dr. Pepper.
You simply fizz atheistically and I fizz theistically. This means that you do
not hold to atheism because it is true, but rather because of a series of
chemical reactions. Morality, tragedy, and sorrow are equally evanescent. They
are all empty sensations created by the chemical reactions of the brain, in
turn created by too much pizza the night before. If there is no God, then all
abstractions are chemical epiphenomena, like swamp gas over fetid water. This
means that we have no reason for assigning truth and falsity to the chemical
fizz we call reasoning or right and wrong to the irrational reaction we call
morality. If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water.
And nothing else.
AUTHOR: Douglas
James Wilson (born 18 June 1953) is a conservative Reformed and evangelical
theologian, pastor at Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, faculty member at New
Saint Andrews College, and prolific author and speaker. Wilson is well known
for his controversial work Southern Slavery, As It Was, which he coauthored
with League of the South co-founder Steve Wilkins. He is also featured in the
documentary film Collision documenting his debates with anti-theist Christopher
Hitchens on their promotional tour for the book "Is Christianity Good for
the World?".
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