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the hunger for the transcendent remains unabated.
a philosophy of meaninglessness is an unavoidable consequence of the antitheistic starting point.
I, for one, believe that this generation longs to think again and that we do it a disservice by not providing that opportunity.
It is out of one’s belief or disbelief in God that all other convictions are formed.
When cordiality is lost, truth is obscured.
unless a complicated argument could be simplified to appeal to the average person, the chances were that the one doing the explaining did not understand it either.
As a sloganeering culture, we have unblushingly trivialized the serious and exalted the trivial because we have bypassed the rudimentary and necessary steps of logical argument.
Those who killed in the name of God were clearly self-serving politicizers of religion, an amalgam Christ ever resisted in His life and teaching.
Atheism, on the other hand, provides the logical basis for an autonomous, domineering will, expelling morality.
The gas chambers of Auschwitz were the ultimate consequence of the theory that man is nothing but the product of heredity and environment—or, as the Nazis liked to say, “of blood and soil.”
I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.1
