On the Iced Coffee Hour Podcast, in 2023, Patrick Bet-David makes a compelling case for everyone has a "god," even the atheist. In the clip I linked to, Patrick's comments reminded me of the scripture that states "... and their hearts are upon their treasures; wherefore, their treasure is their god. And behold their treasure shall perish with them also" (2 Nephi 9:30).
For some atheists, empirical "truth" becomes their god, yet Nietzsche argues persuasively that this is just another version of will to power by scholars and scientists. The worship of Truth loses its meaning in the realm of amoral evolving Life with predators and prey, parasites and hosts, as life uses deception and camouflage to consume itself and reform itself and flourish with a multitude of changing forms, a diversity of species, as life feeds on itself, life lives on life through deception, war and death. Nietzsche covers all of this in much greater detail in his books. Reading Nietzsche graduates one from "sophoric atheism" to "graduate level" philosophizing, in that Nietzsche forces the atheist and agnostic to move beyond adolescent arguments against a "man in the sky" and pushes them to fully confront the full force of believing in a godless universe. I have found that most atheists and agnostics have not fully understood the full weight of disbelief, of the "horrors," the full disequilibrium of their atheism, that is invitably tied to some form of nihilism.
On top of all that, according to our "science," we live in a changing, evolving Universe where nothing remains the same but evolves, and so objective and solid "Truth" does not exist by extension, as these scientists themselves and their claims point in that direction; especially when quantum mechanics points to the possibility of a multiverse: wherein, the patterns and properties of another universe might not adhere to the patterns and properties that make up "truths" in our universe. So that we are only dealing with practical solutions in the realm of probabilities in our current changing Universe and current evolved human form and pattern-seeking brains (which itself evolved); as nothing is static, solid, or objectively "true" in a platonic sense (if we go with the "science"). For even the atom breaks down into mostly empty space and energy.
As Nietzsche wrote in Human, All Too Human, Section One: Of First and Last Things - Aphorism # 2:
... They [philosophers and Intellectuals] will not learn that man has evolved, that the intellectual faculty itself is an evolution, whereas some philosophers make the whole cosmos out of this intellectual faculty. But everything essential in human evolution took place aeons ago, long before the four thousand years or so of which we know anything: during these man may not have changed very much. However, the philosopher ascribes "instinct" to contemporary man and assumes that this is one of the unalterable facts regarding man himself, and hence affords a clue to the understanding of the universe in general. The whole teleology is so planned that man during the last four thousand years shall be spoken of as a being existing from all eternity, and with reference to whom everything in the cosmos from its very inception is naturally ordered. Yet everything evolved: there are no eternal facts as there are no absolute truths. Accordingly, historical philosophising is henceforth indispensable, and with it honesty of judgment.
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For an alternate translation see here.
So that Truth only really begins to make sense when one posits a supreme governing power, a Deity: that grounds truth in consistent cosmic laws and objective moral principles, which are deemed true and objective as they are coming from an ultimate divine Source.
Otherwise, everything is relative and a matter taste or preference and based on the arbitrary whims of a cultural phase and the current governmental "laws" that are arbitrarily determined by evolved brains that percieve what should or "ought" (see Hume) to be legal or illegal.
For if you want objective morality and what we should or ought to do (and what we ought not to do), we need religion, we need spirituality, you need a soul, and a God.
