Atheists aren't a bad lot. I have many atheist friends and, if I'm being honest, some of the most fun conversations I have about religion are with them. They aren't disrespectful; in fact, they ask a lot of questions and give their opinions on the answers. The best times are when I come across a question I don't know the answer to, because it often results in me going to research the answer, and there's nothing wrong with a little more knowledge about the Bible and history.
However, it's anti-theists that I have a problem with.
Anti-theists are usually the ones you run into who have nothing good to say about religion, and believe all the world's ills stem from people's belief in a "sky daddy." They're the ones who love to refer to religion as the "opiate of the masses," and consider churches to be nothing but pedophile rings everyone is cool with.
These people aren't curious about religion. They can't stand any conversation around it that doesn't involve complete and total rejection or hatred of it, and they look down on anyone who is Christian to the point where they believe that their faith should disqualify them from anything public-facing.
And this, in my opinion, is one of the most ignorant things one can do, which is weird because many of these anti-theists consider themselves to be men and women of science.
But anti-theism is, ironically, incredibly unscientific. It completely trashes the idea that our universe could have had a creator, which, as science continues to uncover the secrets of the universe and our own history, continually points to the existence of one.
Case in point, I'm sure many of you heard what Artemis II pilot Victor Glover noted as they drifted into the dark side of the moon, further than any human has been. If not, here is Glover mentioning Christ as he went where no man has gone before.
He mentioned Christ's teachings about loving God with all your heart, and secondly, to love your neighbor.
🚨 BREAKING: Incredible moment as Artemis II pilot Victor Glover shares the Gospel mere MOMENTS before reaching the back side of the Moon, losing communication with Earth
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 6, 2026
"Christ said, in response to what was the greatest command, that it was to love God with all that you are."… pic.twitter.com/VkfCd5TxUv
It was an incredible moment. These are words that will be etched into the annals of history, and I think Glover knew that. Being the man of faith he is, he wanted Christ's words to be attached to this momentous occasion.
But as you can probably bet, the anti-theist community did not take this well. On Reddit, one person complained that:
Reddit anti-theists can’t conceive of someone using science as a tool for discovery, and not worshiped as a god. pic.twitter.com/1aiFWXhBeS
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) April 7, 2026
The funny thing about anti-theists is that they can't seem to comprehend that someone can be a scientist and a Christian. As if the two are complete and total opposites.
They aren't. Science is just a method by which we learn about the world around us. It's not even an authority; it's just a tool. Yet so many people talk about science as if it's a personification of knowledge. We're told to "follow the science," and things like "science says," giving off the idea that there's this entity named "science" that is the keeper and distributor of all knowledge in the universe.
And here is, in my opinion, the intellectual brick wall that many anti-theists run up against.
They see science as a god. They like to say they have no faith in anything, and that they worship nothing, but in actuality, they worship "science" as if it holds all the answers. They say that no matter what, you worship some sort of god, and for many anti-theists, "science" is the Zeus of their pantheon.
But science and God actually go very well together. In essence, science is just the method by which we uncover God's creative mind. In fact, many of the world's most famous scientists, from Isaac Newton to Francis Bacon, were all scientists and all practicing Christians.
The thing about science is that it does not, and cannot, eliminate the possibility of a creator when you start asking the most basic questions, such as where did all this something come from, because we know it couldn't have come from nothing. Even if you do come up with a clever theory as to why something came about, you still have to answer where it came from.
God is not dismissed from these questions easily, and a creator is a very logical guess for many of these questions. The anti-theist, however, completely rejects this idea, effectively eliminating one of the most obvious possibilities, and in their bigotry, even making every finding about disproving that possibility.
Which isn't exactly science. If the findings point toward God, then you have to accept the possibility that there is one, and if you're refusing to accept the data...
...well, then the anti-theist's god would be very disappointed in them.
