> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://amemamem.com.br/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # The Atheists Are Right - URL: https://amemamem.com.br/en/the-atheists-are-right/ - Published: 2025-04-30T17:29:19.000Z - Updated: 2026-11-09T21:46:39.000Z - Description: God tests men, and shows them that they are in themselves like the animals. - Author: Airton Humber - Tags: #en, #de-ateus-tem-razao ## The Atheists Are Right, But They Have Not Yet Seen Everything *“God tests men, and shows them that they are in themselves like the animals.” [*→*](https://www.bibliaonline.com.br/ara/ec/3/18?ref=amemamem.com.br)* It is hard. But it is true. More true than all the beautiful phrases about human dignity. Deeper than all the religious speeches about salvation. God is not weighing good intentions. He is **weighing the spirit**. And what is left, when the Spirit withdraws, is instinct. **It is flesh. It is ego. It is disguise.** --- ### Rousseau: man is born good (or almost) Rousseau saw what the religious people of his time did not see: **A religion allied with power. An exploiting clergy. A faith that humiliated.** Faced with this, he declared: “man is born good; it is society that corrupts him.” He was trying to defend human dignity, but he did it **without the Spirit**. He rejected the Bible, but he believed in God. Not the God who reveals himself, but **a god of conscience, of feeling, of internal morality**. Rousseau **was not an atheist**, but he was also **not a Christian**. He believed in natural religion, not in revelation. His mistake? He thought that man set free from society would return to purity. But man set free from society **becomes a beast**, because **the problem is not outside, but inside**. The Bible is clear: God said: “the inclination of the thoughts of man's heart is always and only toward evil.” [**→**](https://www.bibliaonline.com.br/nvi/gn/6/5?ref=amemamem.com.br) And Jesus: *“Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.” [*→*](https://www.bibliaonline.com.br/nvi/lc/18/19?ref=amemamem.com.br)* And the apostle Paul: *“what I do is not the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do, this I keep on doing.” [*→*](https://www.bibliaonline.com.br/nvi/rm/7/19?ref=amemamem.com.br)* God himself says we are not good. Jesus and Paul said they were not good. And now Rousseau, atheists and believers think they are good!? *“There is no one righteous, not even one.”*[**→**](https://www.bibliaonline.com.br/nvi/rm/3/10?ref=amemamem.com.br) Without the new birth, what is set loose **is not goodness, it is the beast**. ### The consequences of Rousseau: the dream that became tyranny The idea that man is born good and society corrupts him **did not stay only in books**. It became a cry of revolution: **Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.** Three beautiful words, and dangerous when disconnected from the cross. Because when the reference is man himself, what is called liberty **becomes license**. Equality **becomes coercion**. Fraternity **becomes imposition**. The French Revolution, a direct daughter of Rousseau's thought, promised a new world. But it delivered guillotines. It promised liberation. But it brought forth terror. **Thousands were killed in the name of the new man.** And ever since, the same mistake repeats itself: - Soviet communism killed millions, trying to fabricate the “collective man”. - Nazism tried to mold the “superior man”. - Modern humanism tries to preserve the “free man”, drugged by rights and distractions. All of this **without the Spirit**. All of this **without the old man dying**. What Rousseau did not see, and the world insists on not seeing, is that **the true new man is not born of social revolutions**, but of one single inner revolution: **the forming of Christ**. --- ### Harari: man will be useless Yuval Noah Harari, one of the greatest thinkers of our day and author of the international bestsellers **Sapiens**: A Brief History of Humankind, and **Homo Deus**: A Brief History of Tomorrow, looks at the future and says: **“Most people will become economically irrelevant. We will have to offer them a minimum income, entertainment and drugs to maintain social order.”** He is right. Because he is talking about the world he knows: **a system that only recognizes value when there is productivity**. If man no longer serves the machine, he will be domesticated. An animal with a screen in his hand, basic food guaranteed, and drugged enough not to react. The idea is cruel, but logical. The problem is not in Harari. It is **in the world without God that he describes with honesty**. --- ### Leandro Karnal: the atheist who respects faith, but never bows Karnal does not want to change the world or predict catastrophes. He is an observer. A chronicler of reason. An elegant atheist who **speaks about God with reverence, but from afar**. He quotes the gospels. He admires Jesus. He speaks of spirituality. But **he never confesses Christ**. His speech pleases because **it is polished and critical at the same time**. But he **was never born again**. He thinks about faith, but **has not surrendered to faith**. That is why everything he says, even when he is right, **remains cold**. Like someone who analyzes fire without ever getting burned. --- ### Zé: my friend I have a friend. I will call him **Zé**. He is an atheist. And he is honest. He says man is circumstantial. **He acts or reacts according to the environment**. Put the same man in different contexts, and you will see different versions of him. And he is right. Because man without God really is like that: instinctive. Adaptable. Strategic. **Closer to a rational animal than to a spiritual being.** But what Zé has perhaps not yet seen is that there is another man. One who **does not react to the environment**, but **transforms it**. A man who **was not born of the flesh, but of the Spirit**. This man **does not depend on circumstances. He depends on the Father**. --- ### The perversion of the “neighbor” and the training of the poor Today, the needy, fed by food baskets and aid, have begun to **treat this support as obligations**. There is no gratitude. There is no awareness. There is demand. And the church, lost in the game of morality, reinforces this: **“Our role is to serve the poor.”** But they forgot what Jesus taught. In the parable of the good Samaritan, Jesus **does not ask who the needy person is**. He asks: **“who was the neighbor?”** Clear answer: **the one who helped**. My neighbor **is the one who comes to my aid**, not the one who needs me. The church inverted this because **it is easier to help than to acknowledge that one day we were helped**. That is why Jesus **did not give a new summary of the Law**. He gave **a new commandment**: **“Love one another as I have loved you.”** It is no longer loving the other as yourself. It is loving as Christ loved: **without measure, without self-interest, without pride**. --- ### Whoever does not enter by the door: climbs walls with diplomas, morality and tradition Jesus was clear: *“The one who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.” [*→*](https://www.bibliaonline.com.br/nvi/jo/10/1?ref=amemamem.com.br)* And he also said: *“I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved; he will come in and go out, and find pasture.” [*→*](https://www.bibliaonline.com.br/nvi/jo/10/9?ref=amemamem.com.br)* But many religious people **did not enter by the door.** They did not die to themselves. They were not born of the Spirit. **They jumped the wall, with titles, tradition, morality and speech.** And now they teach the sheep to follow a path that **not even they have walked.** These are the ones who make faith a system. The church, a company. The people, a domesticated flock. But whoever enters by the door, by the cross, by surrender, by hunger for God, **finds life. Pasture. Freedom. And truth.** *“Small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” [*→*](https://www.bibliaonline.com.br/nvi/mt/7/14?ref=amemamem.com.br)* *“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may be able to test and approve what God's will is, his good, pleasing and perfect will.” [*→* ](https://www.bibliaonline.com.br/nvi/rm/12/1,2?ref=amemamem.com.br)* ### Work: not punishment, but expression of the new man Harari's world treats work as the criterion of value. Institutional religion treats it as punishment. But in the Domain of the Spirit, work is **an expression of the new nature**. Adam already worked in Eden, before sin. Work is not a curse. It is a calling. But only when we are born of the Spirit does it become service. No longer to prove worth. But because **we already know who we are**. The carnal man works out of fear. The trained man works for reward. But the spiritual man **works out of love**. --- ### Conclusion: it is not about religion, but about Christ formed in us Rousseau is right, against what he saw. Harari is right, about what is coming. Karnal is right, about what is empty. I believe that deep down, and with the intelligence they show, what they reject is the caricature of the divine expressed by traditions. And in the current context, Jesus would very likely be rejected and crucified again by the religious. **But all of them have not yet seen what is alive**. Because Christ did not come to found a new religion. He came to **form a new man**. And this man, different from everything that has been seen, **does not live by instinct, nor by system, nor by morality**. He lives **because the Spirit dwells in him**. And everything changes from there, because goodness is the fruit of the Holy Spirit. --- *“The crucible is for silver, the furnace is for gold, but the Lord tests hearts.” [*→*](https://www.bibliaonline.com.br/nvi/pv/17/3?ref=amemamem.com.br)*