Sincere Disbelief

Amy Orr-Ewing, in her article on Sex and Marriage, offers a select quote from Aldous Huxley:

"I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; consequently I assumed that it had none and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption.... For myself as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation ... liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.... There was one admirably simple method in our political and erotic revolt: We could deny that the world had any meaning whatsoever."

We often hear that Christianity is merely wishful thinking; but, as it was for Huxley, is this more likely the underlying fabric of atheism? If you don't believe in the Personal God to whom you are accountable, search yourself to see if your skepticism is sincere!