Expert: Vincent M. Wales - 3/16/2010

Question
Not your personal views.., but what is your philosophical and logical abductive examination of the following statement as stated by a GOD-denying Neoplatonic Platonist? Is there logic in it, creationism aside?


Atheists are more miserable and profane than even a blood-drinking Satanist. How so? Even the Satanist concedes to the metaphysical world, to the ontological soul. That atheists deny the Creationist’s Supreme-Creator, God, is not the measure of their ignorance, but that Atheism denies a substrate which underlies mere phenomena and the flux of materiality.
    Creationists believe the complexity and beauty of the cosmos is the result of the will of a sentient being, supreme and before which nothing is,…this position is wrong. Worse still on a level immeasurable, is the position of the Atheist who thinks the complexity and entirety of the universe is the happenstance of cosmic flatulence, akin to apes on typewriters, given enough time, eventually producing Shakespearean plays.
    Atheists are the most miserable lot that exists, they look for Subjectivity in the objective world of magnitude and measure and, not finding same therein, deny the Subjective spirit which is the basis for all metaphysics. Like the man who, walking outside his own house, and looking back in upon his window and declaring ‘nobody lives here’, or the child who looks for a signal inside the radio receiver, or for little-peoples ‘inside the television set’, the Atheist is possessed fully by agnosis, which in its fullness, is the praise of death, of mortality most miserable. Their alter is the body doomed to the grave, their prayer is for sensual pleasures as highest, their God is death. Their salvation from suffering is the desire for non-existence (vibhava) which could never come.”

Answer
In all honesty, I find this diatribe a bunch of hooey.  Does it have logic?  Not a shred.  Because it's all based on an assumed truth that cannot be demonstrated.  The author of this rant is taking for granted that there IS a spiritual world.  The author also makes assumptions about the beliefs of atheists that are similarly ungrounded, taking only the most extreme views as being the standard by which atheists must be measured... and that's akin to me saying all Christians must be measured against Pat Robertson.