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In Atheism Kills, Barak Lurie exposes the horrors of a world without God. Contrary to the mantra weve heard time and time again that religion is responsible for more deaths than anything else, it is in fact the absence of God which has killed--in obscene numbers. Ever since atheism first assumed government control in the French Revolution, it has done nothing but kill.Atheism has killed through its many deputies: progressivism, eugenics, fascism, and communism. Lurie shows that it was the godlessness in each of these ideologies that killed hundreds of millions.But atheism doesnt just kill lives. It kills purpose, free will, beauty, compassion, a sense of the past and future, creativity, and freedom itself. Atheism offers only the horrors of chaos and totalitarianism.The world misplaces its focus on Radical Islam as the greatest threat to civilization. As horrible as it is, it is doing nothing and having no sense of self which are the true enemies. It was our will to fight and sense of mission that overcame fascism and communism. We must have these to keep Radical Islam at bay, too.This is why we must resist the growth of atheism. It was God that gave us our freedom. It was God who gave our sense of purpose that created civilization. Take those away, and there is nothing to fight for. In this way, Lurie shows that the lack of belief in God is our greatest danger. How does he know? Because like a hurricane, godlessness has only known how to destroy everything in its path. It has never created.Like there will always be fires, there will always be enemies that seek to destroy our civilization. But if we dont have fire stations with crew, and protocol in each city to deal with fires, those fires will consume us. Likewise, how we prepare ourselves to deal with horrific ideologies will be what saves us.That preparation can only come with our embrace of the centrality of God.

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ISBN: 978-0-9995139-2-7 (e-book)

For my father and mother, Ranan and Tamar Lurie

Table of Contents
Foreword

By Dennis Prager

H eres a riddle:

What do you get when you combine a lawyer, a first-class mind, exhaustive historical research, compelling human stories, moral passion, and grappling with the greatest issues of life?

The answer: Atheism Kills by Barak Lurie.

This book does not focus on proofs of Gods existence. Though a strong believer in God, I have never sought proofs of Gods existencesimply because I dont believe that such proofs exist. If God wanted His existence known the way we know that a cell or a mountain exists, presumably He would have made His existence as provable as that of a cell or a mountain. Moreover, we can only prove that which is completely contained within the natural world. And, by definition, God transcends the natural world. He did, after all, create it.

What we do have here are argumentsarguments that are so logically powerful that I have to conclude what the eminent contemporary thinker, Charles Krauthammer, an agnostic, said to me when I asked what he thought about atheism.

I believe, Krauthammer said, that atheism is the least plausible of all theologies. I mean, there are a lot of wild ones out there, but the one that clearly is so contrary to what is possible is atheism. The idea that all this universewhat is [the atheist argument]: It always existed? It created itself ex nihilo ? I mean, talk about the violation of human rationality. That, to me, is off the charts.

And Krauthammer is not only an agnostic; he is someone who was rendered a quadriplegic by a diving accident while a very young man in medical school. If anyone might be expected to embrace atheism, it would be a man with a brilliant mind, trained as a scientist (at Harvard, a thoroughly secular institution), to whom life dealt a severe and unfair blow at a young age.

What Barak Lurie offers here is, in my opinion, more important than proofs of Gods existence. Instead, he proves something elsethe consequences of atheism. And those consequences are precisely reflected in the title of the book: atheism kills.

There are, of course, fine individuals who are atheists. There were undoubtedly fine people who believed in the pagan gods who demanded child sacrifice. The existence of fine atheists says nothing about atheism, any more than the existence of fine Aztec believers argued for Aztec religion. Atheism is the subject of this book. And Lurie is right: Atheism kills. It kills people, civilizations, beauty, meaning, order, happiness. If something is good, atheism will eventually kill it.

Thats why this book is important. People need to know both the logically inevitable consequences of atheism and its historical record, which starkly bears them out. This is not mere theory.

Atheism Kills is a robust, relentlessly interesting, and intellectually invigorating read. But it is alsoand perhaps most of alla cri de couer , an impassioned cry from the heart. Lurie is worried about civilization, and cares deeply about human suffering. Those are the reasons, I suspect, that he devoted so much time and effort to writing this book. And every one of us who reads it is the beneficiary of his noble and massive effort.

Without God, everything is permitted.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

Voltaire

INTRODUCTION

A student was taking helicopter flying lessons. After some weeks, he started begging his instructor to let him have his first solo flight. The instructor was wary but eventually agreed on one condition: The student had to radio him every 1,000 feet to make sure everything was okay.

So the student agreed and the big day came. He began flying normally and soon, as promised, radioed in at 1,000 feet and confirmed: All good.

Then, at 2,000 feet, the student radioed in again: Everything is fine, but its getting a bit cold.

But before he reached 3,000 feet, the instructor saw from his position on the ground that something horrible was happening: the helicopter had just stopped mid-air. Soon, it began a horrifying descent. Then it plummeted and crashed.

The crash destroyed the helicopter, and set it aflame. But the student miraculously managed to crawl out alive. He had broken bones and burns everywhere on his body.

The instructor ran to him. Oh my God, what happened? he cried out, when he reached him.

I told you it was getting cold, the man answered. So I shut off the giant fan.


So it is when we shut off God from our lives, when we no longer understand Gods central role in the creation of our civilization. We no longer ascend. We may hover for a while, but ultimately, we can only look forward to a very brutal end.

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You walk across a dusty field, the cold and dry wind biting at your face. You approach the stone well of atheism. You reach it, and peer down. The only thing that comes back at you is blackness.

You drop a stone and wait to hear it reach the bottom, but no sound returns. You lower a water bucket, hoping that youll pick something up. But when you raise it, there is nothing.

Atheism offers nothing but its own emptiness. It offers no nourishment for the body nor the mind. No hope, no laughter, no joy, no beauty, no sense of purpose, and no sense of a world beyond our own. It has never created a song or innovated new technology. It has never inspired anyone, nor caused anyone to aspire to anything positive.

The atheist will proclaim that no one has died in the name of godlessness. While that is technically true, it is a meaningless point. More meaningful is that millions have died because of godlessness. Atheism kills.

The ranks of the godless have swollen, and the devil has been smiling. Hes known all along that to foment evil, he need not create an equal and opposite force to goodness. He need not even tempt you with evil thoughts or sinister voices in your head. He need not tell you to worship him as some alternative god.

No. All he would need to do is persuade everyone that God isnt important. After that, he can exploit your instinctive need to matter, your need for purpose. And once hes done that, youll just give the devil your soul, without any fight at all.

Worse yet, you wont even know youre doing it.

In the movie Pulp Fiction , the John Travolta character Vincent Vega explains the differences between Europe and America: Its the little things, he says, such as how they call the Quarter Pounder a Royale with Cheese, and how Europeans use mayonnaise on French fries instead of ketchup. (They drown them in that shi*t, he says).

Even though Vincent was thinking in his own limited pedestrian terms, the little differences apply to our civilization at large. And what seem to be little differences have a way of becoming big ones: Weve gone from when society considered skin magazines seedy (men would even receive their Playboy magazines in the mailbox in brown wrappers), to a world where women proudly upload sex videos of themselves to random porn sites for freeit seems their main motivation is the thrill of getting as many views as possible (and gaining fame that way). Many states and countries have now legalized marijuana and other hallucinogens. Acceptance of low-level crime (prostitution, gambling, drug use, vandalism, and even urinating in public) is also on the rise.

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