Today I read and pondered a statement from Psalm 14, “Only fools say in their hearts, ‘There is no God’” (Ps 14:1a NLT; cf. Ps 53:1a). As I thought about this, a statement from C.S. Lewis came to mind, proposing why he could not remain an atheist. This may be of help to you, as I found it was to me.
“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A person does not call a line crooked unless they have some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be, part of the show, find myself in such violent reaction against it? A person feels wet when they fall into water, because they are not a water animal: a fish would not feel wet. Of course, I could have given up my idea of justice by saying; it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if I did that, then my argument against God collapsed too, for the argument depended on saying that the world was really unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my fancies. Thus in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist (in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless) I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality (namely my idea of justice) was full of sense. Consequently, atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be a word without meaning.”
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity. (Glasgow: Collins, 1985), 40-41.
So, where do you stand on this matter, are you a fool or wise?
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