Human Dignity: The "Effluvium" of Christianity
By Anthony Rogers
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Introduction
      Though atheists anxiously want to be thought of as the paramount defenders of rationality and science as well as of human dignity and freedom,1 insofar as they advocate worldviews that are destructive of both meaning and morals, worldviews therefore that cannot possibly be true in any meaningful or obligatory sense, they make it exceedingly hard for others to share their overinflated self-assessment or the value of their proposed service to the world. As the history of philosophy has provided ample attestation, atheists have proven themselves incapable of constructing a justifiable and workable worldview on god-denying premises, and not for a want of trying. When left to their own sin-guided devices, to nothing but the internal inconsistencies of their own philosophical perspective(s), atheists end up intellectually warring with themselves and living conflicted lifestyles, lifestyles wherein they profess one thing but must live in terms of another, all the while routinely and ignobly putting the problem out of mind.

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