Atheism Cannot Rationally Explain Morals.

Are you suggesting that non-intelligently designed beings couldn't have such qualities? Surely you're not suggesting that your God would not be capable of imagination, planning, designing and constructing etc.? Perhaps it occurs to some of those atheists that intelligent design can't be a pre-requisite for the existence of intelligence. You seem to be arguing that it is. Bizarre.

Spot on, Dave. You tell him. One of the worst aspects of modern atheists is their habit of sticking bananas in the wrong orifice, presumably in the dumb evolutionist hope of producing a hybrid that they can converse with while eating. You can even see them doing this in public as here: Banana Bar.The choice is theirs, as you say, but the time will surely come when the Lord will smite them with fire.

Wouldn't your god be in the same position as that speculative atheist? It would either have to make up its own meaning, or, to your way of thinking, be meaningless.

Interesting theology for a Christian. "In the beginning, there was meaning, then there was God", rather than the other way around.Also, wouldn't it have been better to use the word "existence" rather than life, as life itself is mortal?I don't think "existence" can have any purely objective meaning, and purely objective morals can't exist in theism or atheism.That's different from the question of explaining scientifically why intelligent social animals like us might have the concept of morality, something which could and has been attempted."Atheism", of course, doesn't explain anything, just as non-belief in Santa Claus doesn't tell us where the presents actually come from. The O.P. of this thread is a mess, but I think its author wants to say that only a belief in a god can "explain morals", but certainly fails to make that case.

If he had shown you an acorn and claimed it came from an oak tree, would you have asked for proof?As with acorns, only one source of religions can be shown to exist. Human invention.

He tended not to use the Jesus, just Christ, Our Lord etc.

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The best characterization is provided by the product of this religious education, the Jew himself. His life is only of this world, and his spirit is inwardly as alien to true Christianity as his nature two thousand years previous was to the great founder of the new doctrine. Of course, the latter made no secret of his attitude toward the Jewish people, and when necessary he even took the whip to drive from the temple of the Lord this adversary of all humanity, who then as always saw in religion nothing but an instrument for his business existence. In return, Christ was nailed to the cross, while our present-day party Christians debase themselves to begging for Jewish votes at elections and later try to arrange political swindles with atheistic Jewish parties— and this against their own nation.

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Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Vol. 1, Chapter 11

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My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God’s truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was his fight against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed his blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly, it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people. And when I look on my people I see them work and work and toil and labor, and at the end of the week they have only for their wages wretchedness and misery. When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people are plundered and exposed.

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Adolf Hitler, speech in Munich on April 12, 1922, countering a political opponent, Count Lerchenfeld, who opposed antisemitism on his personal Christian feelings.

Perhaps you should hedge your bets, and only pray for his soul every other day.