The Case against Atheism In Queensland, Australia, a few years ago I was giving a seminar on some of the principles contained in this book. A man approached me afterwards. I entered the room toward the end of your talk, he said, and heard you referring to God. Now then, I m an atheist.
Mankind needs something to look up to an ideal, a dream, an aspiration.
We may think of that ideal as God, forever consciously awaiting and encouraging us to seek Him. Or we may think of it as merely some goal held consciously in our own minds. In any case, the goal is, in a sense, conscious, for to us its attainment implies something to do with consciousness, a conscious fulfillment. It is no wooden idol, certainly. Voltaire wisely said, If God didn t exist, mankind would need to invent Him.