Religion, Atheism and Divine Accountability
Religion can be deadly. There have been those that have done great harm because they feel that God has mandated them to do so. Some have even done great evil in the name of Christ, the Crusades of the Middle Ages perhaps being a chief example.
But history shows us that there is something much more dangerous than people acting in the name of God. It is people acting in the name of the absence of God. The evil committed by those who boast that they are under no cosmic accountability dwarfs the evil committed by the religiously motivated. Consider just the 20th century:
- Soviet Russia, particularly under Stalin (30 million peasants killed in the Ukraine)
- Nazi Germany (6 million Jews exterminated and millions more killed as a result of their military aggression)
- Communist China (the fullness of which we are yet to see)
- The list could go on…
People are dangerous, but all the more so when they have dismissed the thought of divine accountability.
Something to think about from the “Kingdom Perspective”.
You felt secure in your wickedness and said,
’No one sees me,’
Your wisdom and your knowledge,
they have deluded you;
For you have said in your heart,
’I am, and there is no one besides me.’~Isaiah 47:10 NASB
