Yet somehow, dear brother in Christ, I sense or feel that you would have the time and interest.
Please weigh in if/as you can.
Thank you for the ping, sister.
Reading through the article and the responses, both pro and con, I’m struck by the positions taken.
I expect that they’ll be proven on the basis of their proximity to reality. Reality strikes me as immutable. As a believer in God, I am convinced of His realness. Ultimately, Reality is God who is the uncaused Cause. Therefore, any objections will eventually come up against that unmovable Wall and will be stopped dead in their tracks...simply because they have no basis in fact (only in human imagination).
This is true of any position counter to God. Whether Islam, Atheism, Scientism, or any other religion or philosphy, they all will stand or fall on the basis of their alignment with Reality.
Sometimes the separation from Reality is so extreme that the opponent hits the Wall sooner rather than later. (Sun worship for example.)
Interestingly, even our behaviors are weighed in this balance of Reality. Romans teaches us that those who cling to an Unreality must turn to that which is Unnatural, and thus, some of their unnatural behaviors will cause individuals to hit the Wall, the devastating impact on their well-being taking them from the stage of life. (Homosexual disease, for example, the result of, at a minimum, the religion of Self-Worship/Narcissism.)
Such will be the case with Atheism. The seeds of its own destruction, and/or that of its adherents, are inbuilt. Sooner or later, the directions an adherence to unreality allows the adherent to take, that seem rational to the adherent, are going to confront Reality. Sometimes that confrontation is a devastating crashing into the Wall. Sometimes its the slow approach to the immovable, unscalable Wall.
One cannot escape Reality....especially there is no escaping the One who is Ultimate Reality.
However, WHOSOEVER calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.