by Matthew Roberts, The Critic
Secularism has nothing to offer in comparison to Easter
There are many ways in which secular atheism is demonstrating itself to be a wholly inadequate view of the world. There is its caustic effect on human relationships, as its elevation of power and grievance over love and responsibility drives people apart and destroys families and society. There is its appalling vacuum of meaning and value, which cannot be filled with self-help, sex and Amazon Prime. And there is the nonsense of its logical conclusions, with transgenderism in pole position: a philosophy which teaches that what we are is entirely self-defined is one which has performed on itself a neat reductio ad absurdum. Its ludicrous outputs demonstrate that its fundamental premises are false. Garbage in, garbage out, as data scientists say.
But these flaws in the edifice of secularism, serious though they are, are relative latecomers. Two thousand years ago it was fatally undermined — in advance — by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
When the first Christians began proclaiming Christ crucified and risen, they landed a missile into the foundations of ancient paganism. Something had occurred which rendered the belief systems of that world utterly obsolete; an event which simply could not have happened if the world was the kind of place which they envisaged it to be. And Easter does the same for the prevailing beliefs of our day as well. For the resurrection of Jesus demonstrates and declares — against everything that both ancient pagans and modern secularists have believed and taught — that this world is made, and that it is being remade.
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