References:

1. Atheism leads to nihilism.

2. Nihilism is self-defeating.

3. Atheism is traveling on a road built by God all the while saying that theism is a dead-end street.

4. “Stealing From God” by Frank Turek.

5. The millions of deaths by the communist’s regimes of Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Edi Amin, and Fidel Castro in the 20th century add a further testament to the reality of the world without God.

6. Question: If there is no God, can anything be really right or wrong?

7. “The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

8. Ivan Karamazov’s thesis: “If God does not exist, everything is permitted.”

9. Friedrich Nietzsche popularized the saying: “God is dead.”

10. But almost 35 years after the death of Nietzsche, that time had come, and everyone since then should know beyond any doubt the terrible consequences of believing there is no God.

11. If atheism is true, then there is no objective right and wrong.

12. If God doesn’t exist, then our world becomes a death camp like Auschwitz.

13. “Ethics Without God” by Kai Nielsen.

14. Bedrock moral beliefs: torturing innocents is evil; wife beating and child molesting is evil.

15. Study by psychologist Julie Exline of Case Western University.

16. Testimonies of those atheists who first choose atheism and then afterwards seek to find reasons to justify their choice: Michael Shermer, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Nagle, and Richard Lewontin.

This is episode 77.