Atheist Believes Africa Needs God
Kendall Harmon of Anglican blog TitusOneNine found an interesting article in the UK's Times Online about an atheist who believes that Africa needs missionaries and not money. In the article, Matthew Parris, the atheist, describes a trans-Africa road trip where he and his friends sought shelter at night near missionary areas for safety reasons. Matthew and his friends noted that people in mission areas were different. The attitudes of the missionaries transfers to the local people and changes them for the better.
During a recent visit to Malawi, Matthew notes that Christians do heal the sick and do teach people to read and write. The work of Christians in Africa is so profound that Matthew writes;
"It confounds my ideological beliefs, stubbornly refuses to fit my world view, and has embarrassed my growing belief that there is no God. ... In Africa Christianity changes people's hearts. It brings a spiritual transformation. The rebirth is real. The change is good."
We have long noted that atheists seem only to exist in stable theistic societies. Atheists tend to assume social stability developed naturally versus as the result of theistic influence. The problem with the atheist model of society is that it is only sustainable in theistic societies. The atheist model is not true across all socieites. A universal truth applies worldwide and not just locally.
Take another African society as an example. Somalia is ruled by a-religious war lords who follow neither Islam nor Christianity. Might makes right. The ethics of the war lords conflicts with the ethics of the theistic society atheists. Are both sets of ethics equally moral? If not, why is one group's ethics correct and the other in error? By what authority?
Matthew has learned a valuable lesson. Its one thing to declare oneself an atheist in the relative safety of a theistic society. Its another to live that belief outside of theistic society.
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During a recent visit to Malawi, Matthew notes that Christians do heal the sick and do teach people to read and write. The work of Christians in Africa is so profound that Matthew writes;
"It confounds my ideological beliefs, stubbornly refuses to fit my world view, and has embarrassed my growing belief that there is no God. ... In Africa Christianity changes people's hearts. It brings a spiritual transformation. The rebirth is real. The change is good."
We have long noted that atheists seem only to exist in stable theistic societies. Atheists tend to assume social stability developed naturally versus as the result of theistic influence. The problem with the atheist model of society is that it is only sustainable in theistic societies. The atheist model is not true across all socieites. A universal truth applies worldwide and not just locally.
Take another African society as an example. Somalia is ruled by a-religious war lords who follow neither Islam nor Christianity. Might makes right. The ethics of the war lords conflicts with the ethics of the theistic society atheists. Are both sets of ethics equally moral? If not, why is one group's ethics correct and the other in error? By what authority?
Matthew has learned a valuable lesson. Its one thing to declare oneself an atheist in the relative safety of a theistic society. Its another to live that belief outside of theistic society.
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Source: As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God
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