The Void Left by Atheism

Atheism is losing ground! It has proven itself bankrupt spiritually, philosophically, culturally, psychologically and historically. It was tried extensively and intensively in Russia. The world watched and said, "We don't want a society like that!" Even the Russian citizens cried out, "We don't want this anymore!" Today's China is largely atheistic. Its citizens are crying out (to the extent they are able to) "Give us something else!" The human heart, made in God's image, gravitates toward God - or the spiritual, the transcendent, as the roots of a tree spread out in search of water. Nothing less than God will satisfy the human heart. Eventually atheistic society becomes dull, uninteresting, uncreative, unimaginative. It soon develops a sense of lethargy and despair as an inevitable result of life cut off from God. And as the world becomes aware of the empty shell of atheism, we Christians are obliged to  make sure they see in the community of believers the very alternative they have been missing.