Materialism means there is no truth, you can't know truth, you cannot be free

"You are only arguing out of your own experience . . . "

It is one of the really silly pretenses of the atheist-materialist-scientistic ideology that any of us is capable of experiencing anything, having any thought of any "rearrangement of circuits" or whatever entirely imaginary pretended "scientific" model of thought of any kind that they can cook up which isn't the product of our own experience.  Every single thing we come to believe is true is a product of that experience and, get this, kids, HOW WE CHOOSE TO INTERPRET THAT BODY OF EXPERIENCES.   My conviction that what Jesus said is true is no more a product of my experience than Alex Rosenberg's,  Paul and Patricia Churchlands',  Daniel Dennett's, Jerry Coyne's, Sean Carroll's or Sam Harris's belief in their sects of scientistic atheism is a product of their experience and the choices we make of what to believe. 

I can say that my belief in God and Christianity is in no way inconsistent with the belief that what science and mathematics and history I also believe in is actually true, that any sentence I can read or articulate on those have at least the possibility of being true, any moral holding I have being valid but there is no way to hold that while holding with any species of materialism rigorously considered.  Christianity is not the only belief that is consistent with believing that our minds are capable of transcendence, having the ability to know the truth and that truth making us free, but all of those are impossible to hold while being a materialist who rigorously considers the logical consequences of materialism for human minds and thoughts and the denial of that quality of transcendence.  Materialism demands that our minds are the product of material causation and cannot be free.

Materialism means there is no truth, you can't know truth, you cannot be free and you're no more significant than any common chemical reaction anyway.   You may not have thought it through, but your materialism means that there is no transcendent qualitative difference between my beliefs about that, your beliefs about materialism and any strychnine drinking, snake-handling Pentecostalists' or, in fact, the beliefs that produce  ISIS or Al Qaeda.   There being no such thing as truth is a logical consequence of materialism, takein to its logical end, and then materialism must discount the very action of drawing logical conclusions if it is to remain self-consistent.   Religious belief isn't inconsistent with believing that logic is a means of arriving at reliable information.   Your ignorant, yahoo barroom or blog atheist might not realize that, but one like Alex Rosenberg could tell you that, even as his continued discourse proves he doesn't even believe it, himself.   Materialism leads to fascism, both what gets called fascism and the red-fascism of Marxists.

Update:  Joel Osteen has nothing to do with religion, he's in show-biz, his career is an infomercial, so he's got more in common with you than with what I'm talking about.   Actually, he's more in Duncan's line, I notice he actually has the cluelessness to whine about people who lie in the media when he allows you to comment on his blog.   Yeah, you and Osteen have something in common, I don't.