Atheist quote of the day #11

"I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time." - Isaac Asimov

Mr Asimov should have stuck with his first thought. When we set aside reason, when we decide truth on the basis of what we feel, when we invent a universe according to our desires rather than reality, we waste two God-given resources: our brains, and time.

Atheists like to accuse Christians of believing nonsense because it suits them. The bible says that natural man suppresses the truth "in unrighteousness" because the truth is disdainful to him. Poor Mr Asimov is indeed wasting his time, his precious short time, before the reality of his perilous situation is revealed to him in full.