Atheists have a worldview; but they loathe to admit it.

Atheists insist they don’t have a worldview. They just don’t have proof that a God exists. Oh, and they have an obsession for science. That is all. But they wrong on so many levels everyone has a worldview.

A worldview is a lens through which we view the world, whether it is through philosophy, certain theories or a political stance, even culture. These things alone can inform a worldview well before we get to the metaphysical slash religious side of things.

Then there is that other side to it; once someone adopts atheism as the premise this becomes the lens that informs everything else as well. Like science et al.

Author Paul David Tripp had an interesting encounter with a 28 year old man on a bus ride. During the course of their conversation he found out this guy was a professing atheist.

After their fairly length talk Tripp made some observations; later he went on to share them with his readers.

First was the surety with which the young man spoke. He was convinced that he had it all figured out.

He was not a philosophy major; he had only a cursory knowledge of the religions of the world and almost no knowledge of what Christianity was about.

Tripp called the man a theologian; only he had no idea that was what he was.

By no means did he have a neutral view of life; it was fixed.

Rather, he carried in his mind an organized system of thought about life, death, identity, meaning, and purpose, about what was, what is, and what will come.

Tripp was also struck by the fact that every morning this guy put on a metaphorical pair of glasses through which he viewed everything in life.

Everything that was said, seen, and understood by this man was filtered through the lens of atheism.

And that lens was his worldview.

Armand Nicholi was a clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and author of The Question of God.

He says; our worldview informs our personal, social, and political lives as well as our purpose.

Further, he said that our worldview determines our ethics, our values, and our capacity for happiness. It helps us answer the big questions of life: How did I get here? How am I to live? Where do I find meaning in life? What is my ultimate destiny?

So Nicholi is telling us that our worldview is more telling than perhaps any other aspect of our lives.

In forming our worldviews we make two assumptions about life.

The first is that we live in a godless universe; and that we are a product of nature that has evolved over time.

Basically it is down to what do science and nature have to say?

The second assumption is there is a supernatural in­telligence who gives the universe order, and life meaning.

This leads to the question; what does God have to say about this?

Every person has an opinion on God and spiritual reality; even if it is a belief that He is non-existent.

We all have a faith view of reality and it trickles down into our lives and influences the choices we make.

Dr John Lennox the English mathematician has this to say.

What divides us is not science . . . but our worldviews. No one wants to base their life on a delusion, but which is the delusion? Is it Christianity or atheism?