Czeslaw Milosz, who had reason to know, writes: "A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders, we are not going to be judged."54 Thus, if God does exist, atheism can be seen as a psychological escape mechanism to avoid taking ultimate responsibility for one's own life.
( John C. Lennox )
[ Gunning for God: Why the New ]
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