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The connecting of dots is really all that a careful facilitator needs to accomplish in order to teach it to a church group, or discuss it with a skeptic. What follows is an explanation of the argument that should be easily adopted by learners and retains the powerful philosophical truths it reveals.

Ultimately, the truth of atheism would mean that we may only properly refer to man as liking kindness and disliking murder. We cannot say that kindness is good or murder is wrong. This strikes most people as horrid, but it is even more deplorable when one considers even more horrendous events in human history. As many Christian defenders have pointed out, the holocaust of the Jews would, if there is no God, not be a bad thing. It would just be a thing.

If atheism is true, so is determinism (the belief that no freedom of the will actually exists). The universe is just a closed system of cause and effect - like dominoes falling in a line. Even our choices are determined. We don't really have the genuine ability to choose. But, can this really be lived out? Find out in this very short story.