Recently, some Christians have argued that Mormonism is a kind of philosophical atheism,

and some Catholic apologists have claimed William Lane Craig is an atheist because Craig rejects

some versions of divine simplicity regarding God's nature. So in today's episode, we're going to answer

the question, is it atheism? But first, a more important question. Have you subscribed to the Council of Trent so you don't miss out on our great content?

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Ironically, Christians in ancient Rome were called

atheists because they didn't worship the gods of Rome. Justin Martyr discusses this accusation

in his defense of the faith to the Roman Emperor, and he writes, What sober-minded man then

will not acknowledge that we are not atheists, worshiping as we do the maker of this universe?

This gets paralleled today when atheists tell Christians that Christians are also atheists because Christians don't believe in

pagan gods like Zeus or Thor. Atheists say they're more consistent because they simply believe

in one less God than Christians believe in. But that's like a bachelor telling a married man,

you are a bachelor towards every other woman on earth. I just have one less wife than you. So we're

basically the same. Of course, there's a huge difference between being married and being

unmarried, just as there's a huge difference between believing in any gods and believing there

are no gods. Plus, the God I worship as a

Christian is not a re-skinned version of Zeus or Thor that I arbitrarily chose over other

deities. I believe the best explanation for reality is an uncreated, infinite, perfect ground of existence.

That explanation can't be the physical universe or any finite

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