The question of the ages: does God exist or not? If not, does it matter for the human race?..
Consider:
In some respects, we live in a world all but shorn of metaphysics. Many seem to take for granted, for example, that matter is the only thing that really exists, and that the only kinds of causation operating in our world are what Aristotle refers to as material and efficient causes. Things happen, quite simply, because material objects bump into one another like billiard balls. Even living things are fundamentally little more than matter in motion, carried along by a long and unbroken chain of physical causation, and our most precious thoughts and feelings are but molecular processes unfolding in our brains.[i]
In the end, if it’s the case that God does NOT exist, we are home alone. Any importance so-called, is merely a passing phantasm in an individual’s mind; beyond that, a reflex of the herd as they follow the leader and go this way or that but nothing more. If this is true then man is merely an animal trained by unknown outside forces wherein only the strong – or well connected with the levers of power – will survive. A theoretical reality that opens the door to power politics wherein the true masters of the universe are, similar to the heroes found in the Iliad, warlords sworn to none but their own visions of power and honor. All others are merely pawns upon the chessboard of life with no other purpose but to serve those further up the hierarchy of power. Appealing to the commonality of man or human dignity and mutual respect are merely words and phrases in a world without objective meaning except the reality of power: animal against animal like the gladiators of old.
Perhaps that is why author Richard Gunderman wrote in his book review on Reading Genesis,
If the world is just matter in motion and its only laws are physical in nature, then freedom is a mere illusion, with no sound footing in the nature of things. But if the very origin of the world is shot through with divine significance—if it was made to be good and beautiful—then law and liberty find a much firmer foothold, and ethical discernment takes on a deeper, perhaps even sacred significance.[ii]
Who can forget the Black Lives Matter movement that began under former president Obama[iii] that years later exploded on the national scene during the summer of 2020. Everyone was bullied either by the news media or protestors or social media “fact checkers” to say the magic words – or else! If you dared suggest that white lives matter or all lives matter you would be cancelled as in deplatformed from social media and possibly beaten up if on the streets of your very own cities wherein police stood down and let it all play out.
Yet ultimately the only foundation for any of the “lives matter” movements is based upon Acts 17:26. But of course that’s found only in the Bible. Take that away as a transcendent sacred text – and claims to what matters or does not matter is merely stuff and nonsense because nothing ultimately matters and people are merely huffing and puffing ideas, concepts and preferences fueled by emotional, egotistical pretense based upon nothing more than wishful thinking.
To pull a society together requires time tested values that are norms considered as the bedrock of society lest it collapse.[iv] Here at Christian Liberty Homeschools, we offer the reason “all lives” of all colors do matter – because Scripture makes it clear that they do with not one race more favored than another despite what Darwin wrote. Our curriculum offers these “time tested values” as the “bedrock” of our program. Find us at: www.homeschools.org
Citations:
[ii] Ibid.
[iii]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter#:~:text=In%202013%2C%20activists%20and%20friends,African%2DAmerican%20teen%20Trayvon%20Martin.