<\/a>An idea I need to develop:<\/p>\n

The Gospel supplanted paganism in its various forms because through the preaching of it the Resurrected Christ is revealed, the One through whom death was destroyed, the One who broke the shackles of paganism — the prison of capricious fate and the cosmic despair that paganism was powerless to overcome. The resurrection of Christ breaks the bonds of the pagan world view by putting death to death. It was a historic, space-time event of universal power and cosmic significance that brought forward a new civilization from the exhausted ruins of the old one through the labor of those who heard and stood in that Gospel.<\/p>\n

However, if the God of Abraham is rejected, no god exists to replace Him. Jesus Christ is Lord of Lords, the King of Kings. “Hear O Israel, the Lord you God is One God” meaning your God in not a god of the pagans, not another god in the pantheon of gods, not one of a multiplicity of gods. This means that the atheist rejection of God by necessity compels an embrace of death because he rejects the God who destroyed death. Nothing exists beyond Him. <\/p>\n

Atheism, then, is not a return to paganism since that path has become a historical impossibility. It is, rather, a descent into the cold regions where life cannot exist and the end result must be a place where the suffering will become greater than the slavery to fate and despair known by the pre-Christian ancients. Historical necessity allows no other conclusion. <\/p>\n

We are in a fight for our lives. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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