Day 34 – the ambiguity of atheists regarding justice (II)
The modern age, more or less repudiating the idea of a divine lawgiver, has nevertheless tried to retain the ideas of moral right and wrong. –RICHARD TAYLOR
We can better see the inconsistency of the atheist’s position if we go back to our game of dice.
What if you and I play the same game and once again you have $75 and I have $25 after a hundred rolls. This time, however, I discover that you are using dice that are weighted, making it more likely for you to roll a higher number. Would I brush this off as easily as yesterday? Of course, not! I would accuse you of unfair tactics and demand my money back. I would say that you have chosen to stack the odds in your favor, that the game is not fair by any standards. If you refuse to give me the money back, I would be infuriated and would take measures to correct the injustice. If you are rich and don't need the money and I am poor and do, my fury would be even hotter and my quest for justice more intense.
Atheists would like us to believe that the world is 100% chance and that no such thing as fairness or unfairness exists. They do not tend to act, however, as if this is true. Instead, when they see that others have chosen to stack the odds against them, they immediately begin to think it all unfair. Even if told they still have a small chance to succeed, they are not amused. They demand the playing field to be leveled. If not, they threaten to level it themselves. Isn't that what Lenin and Stalin did? Didn't they, like all atheists, act on the assumption that life was not fair?
Daily Quotation
Richard Taylor, Ethics, Faith, and Reason (Englewood Cliffs, NJ.: Prentice Hall, 1985), 65.
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