Do Atheists Refuse to Accept Divine Rule?
Myth: You simply refuse accept authority or Divine Rule Response: Robert Morey, in his book The New Atheism and the Erosion of Freedom, argues that people today become atheists because they actually hate God. Why? According to Morely, atheists are distraught at God s demands for servitude. Atheists don t want to acknowledge any authority above themselves, and so attack the idea of a god in order to deny the existence of that Supreme Authority. This misconception is similar to the claim that atheists don t believe in God in order to be immoral. What occurs here is an attempt to attribute a person s disbelief to a desire to evade what they don t like about God. The first thing to notice about this argument is that it is a logical fallacy, known as the Genetic Fallacy. All that is happening here is that the theist is making a claim about why a person is an atheist and then attacking that motivation. This
