A Different Perspective on Atheism

Here is a blog post from another blog of mine, expressing a different perspective on atheism than is perhaps typical for a Christian.

It is primarily a rhetorical analysis of a website I consider flawed, but it's conclusion provides some insight into just how one might employ a Christist critical method when dealing with moral atheists.

Here is the significant paragraph that, I think, lends insight into a Christist critical frame:

"from one perspective, it could be argued that the atheist who ethically follows that "light" of right and wrong within, choosing good over evil simply for the sake of good's goodness, already worships God through faith in the rightness of that unseen light (faith is "the evidence of things not seen," after all); from a Christian perspective, this Light is "the Light, which lights every man which cometh into the world" (John 1:9), and in responding to that Light, from a Christian perspective, the atheist ignorantly responds to the call of Christ; so the Christian's declaration to the ethical atheist should not be "believe in Christ or go to hell," but, rather, "he whom ye ignorantly worship declare I unto you" (Acts 17:23)."


As I suggested in earlier posts: if we are to critically engage the world from a Christist perspective, we must be able to accurately see the "gods" or ideas that are active in the world so that we can see more clearly the object of worship, and thus see if we are dealing with God or mammon.

Sometimes, those who appear to be Christ's aren't--wolves in sheep's clothing--and sometimes, those whom we would decry as not Christ's may, in fact, be worshiping him unwittingly.

http://robertsonian.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-many-many-fallacies-of-carm.html