A reader asks about an atheist argument |Blogs | NCRegister.comSHEA: The idea, in other words, is not that the Church is right and everbody else is totally wrong. It's that there is a hierarchy of truth and that there are other religions aand philosophies that preserve more and less of the truth that is revealed in fullness in Jesus Christ and subsists in the Catholic Church. On such a hierarchy, even an atheists have a place in that they usually affirm certain aspects of Catholic moral teaching such as human dignity, as well as Catholic conviction that the universe operates according to knowable law that the human mind can penetrate and understand. That is, ironically, a faith proposition and almost all modern Western atheists hold it without realizing it is an act of faith to do so. They have to hold that article of faith or else there is no reason to trust that Science will yield any truth at all.
