"Who Do Atheists Thank?"

"Any casual observer to the 24-hour news cycle and the relentless buzz of social media can tell you something in contemporary culture is awry," says Jerry Pierce of Decision Magazine.

Understatement. Of. The. Year. Anyone with two functioning brain cells can see, as a society, we're going off the rails, sinking fast, going to hell in a hand-basket.

Pierce points to heightened racial tensions, sexual anarchy and political polarization to say, "Morally, society is unhinged."

(Not to mention: school, work, recreation and church-shootings).

According to Pierce, "The Apostle Paul clearly explains in Romans 1: 18-32 that failing to honor God and give Him thanks is at the root of societal collapse:

"His invisible attributes, namely His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened" (Romans 1: 18-21).

"Romans 1 goes on to say that as people suppress the truth that is seen in nature and resist the gracious God who created it, they dive deeply into moral lawlessness," Pierce explained.

"The chaos Paul describes is progressively severe as God's wrath is revealed--by His giving sinners what they want. Idolatry and rampant sexual immorality follow.

"And yet people--even atheists--still have an impulse to be thankful," says John Stonestreet, President of the Colson Center For Christian Worldview.

"I've heard atheists and agnostics describe a sense of gratefulness. Popular atheist and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has described feeling "sort of an abstract gratitude" at the wonders of the universe. But that doesn't make any sense in their worldview. It's what's called cognitive dissonance. Who are they thanking? Who are they grateful to?"

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A wise man once said: "To observe Thanksgiving rightly, one must acknowledge the holiness and majesty of the God to whom thanks is due." -- Albert Mohler, President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

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