The Believer Smiles Benignly

The secularist must feel the religious believer is cheating when he responds to the secularist’s arguments, I argue in today’s “On the Square” article, Secularist Cheating . The secularist argues, for example,

that people take to religion as a crutch, because they can’t get through life without help—or, as he thinks, the illusion of help—and the Christian and Jew and Muslim smile benignly and admit they can’t. They explain that we are crippled by sin and death, and God has graciously provided the aid we need. The lifesaving ring someone throws you when you are drowning remains real even though you want it desperately.

The reality, I think, is that the secularist arguments are not as good as they appear.