There is much written today in regard to atheism. I wonder if this movement is just a normal cycle in the world of secularism or a new dynamic. Recently, liberal Congressman Pete Stark , Democrat from California “came out of the closet” and proclaimed that he was in fact an atheist. Christopher Hitchens, a writer and commentator, recently published a book entitled “God is not Great” is a strong atheist and outspoken critic of believers in God. I have not personally read text from these two non-believers but I doubt that their arguments are much different than terms such as rationalism, agnosticism, and modernism which deny any real meaning to the credibility of the Gospels. The signs of Christ’s divinity such as the forty-one miracles and groups of miracles recorded of him in the Gospels, on the testimony of John, are but a few of the many signs that Christ gave us. The miracle of the Resurrection is questioned by the skeptics but enemies, Roman power and friends were there to witness the death of Christ. Do they doubt this historical fact? He was even guarded to make sure that no one would take his body and spread the report of his Resurrection. The idea of no God or Creator begs the question of how does something begin to be without an efficient cause? Thomas Aquinas spoke of the uncaused cause and the atheists cannot come up with an intelligence answer as to the cause of our existence and to the enormous and complicated planets that one casually observes by simply looking upward to the sky on a moon-lit night, or with a telescope to better identify the various stars etc. In the final analysis, all things cannot be rationally proven, the following statement really summarizes the beauty of God. Jesus said when asked about what was the first of all commandments and He replied: ”You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no greater commandment than these.”

Gary E. Marsella

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