An ABC blog­ger reck­ons reli­gion is in decline because nobody is as scared of death any more… his post attracted a bunch of rabid athe­ists — like any such post on the inter­webs does. There aren’t enough ratio­nal Chris­tians com­ment­ing on these kinds of posts with gospel intent…

“The appeal of the big three monothe­is­tic reli­gions — Judaism, Chris­tian­ity and Islam — has always been that they offer us a mech­a­nism to deal with death, an accom­mo­da­tion with our inevitable per­sonal extinction.”

The study of reli­gious struc­tures is pretty fas­ci­nat­ing. But the idea that reli­gions came about to con­trol peo­ple rather than in a search for truth and mean­ing is pretty insult­ing to any believer.

Chris­tian­ity, is not, as the author of this piece sug­gests, about “moral liv­ing’ that’s an out­come of Chris­tian­ity not the process of Chris­tian­ity. And it’s not the end goal of Chris­t­ian life.

“In exchange for liv­ing accord­ing to a moral code, life can be infi­nitely pro­longed after the death of the body. But for West­ern­ers, death is now fur­ther away than ever before. West­ern sci­ence has not yet con­quered death, but it has now ban­ished death to a com­fort­able distance.”

One of the angry athe­ists in the com­ments sug­gested that the God of the Bible is immoral — kind of defeats the pur­pose of being God if you’re not the arbiter of moral­ity doesn’t it? That state­ment is not logical.

“This arti­cle made no men­tion of the wealth of evi­dence and argu­ments against reli­gion. The immoral­ity of the god of the bible, mohammed, and just the illog­i­cal nature of the whole thing.”

Author: Nathan Campbell

Nathan runs St Eutychus. He is currently a student at the Queensland Theological College. In a previous professional life he worked in public relations for an economic development and tourism marketing organisation. He is married to Robyn. He likes coffee and the internet.

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