One of the interesting contrasts between the Christian and the Atheist is where we place our cynicism. The secular person is quick to say how he doesn’t believe in God or hold to the doctrine of the Church, but in every other area of life atheists seem very quick to trust someone or something that they think is “good”. The Christian on the other hand believes in God and in Scripture. He trusts the Lord and embraces spiritual things that he can’t see with his natural eyes but that he can experience with his spiritual senses. That being said, the Christian is deeply cynical of man. This largely comes from both what the Bible teaches about the innate sinfulness of mankind and of our own experience of how people regularly fail us. One can see then how atheistic approaches to government almost always end up in totalitarianism. Too much trust is given to people who say they will do good things. Those people, whether they started with good intentions or not, become corrupted by the power given them but by then they are very difficult to stop. The solution for atheistic naïveté is to seek to create a government that protects individual freedom and to create limits of that government’s power. If only there was a nation who had founders who thought like this….

Posted by Clifford Paul Engels at 2024-04-01 14:50:46 UTC