‘In itself, every idea is neutral, or should be; but man animates ideas, projects his flames and flaws into them; impure, transformed into beliefs, ideas take their time, take shape as events: the trajectory is complete, from logic to epilepsy … whence the birth of ideologies, doctrines, deadly games.’
– E. M. Cioran
The world needs education, it needs to learn it is time to go beyond the restriction of negativity perpetuated by religion; It needs to determine that the value of humankind is not in whether or not it believes in some particular deity of choice, but the belief in humanity as a whole. Continue reading
I am genuinely baffled by the continued gullibility of theists. In debate ( and I use that term loosely) their argument boils down to fact that their particular brand of supernatural deity loves them, that to behave responsibly they have to follow the bible for their moral compass and that in order to be less “hateful” I should read that lovely, sweet book of love – their scripture. 
His aversion to religion, in the sense usually attached to the term, was of the same kind with that of Lucretius: he regarded it with the feelings due not to a mere mental delusion, but to a great moral evil. He looked upon it as the greatest enemy of morality: first, by setting up factitious excellencies – belief in creeds, devotional feelings, and ceremonies, not connected with the good of human kind – and causing these to be accepted as substitutes for genuine virtue: but above all , by radically vitiating the standard of morals; making it consist in doing the will of a being, on whom it lavishes indeed all the phrases of adulation, but whom in sober truth it depicts as eminently hateful
A Christian Nation…
Atheism is not a modern invention, nor is it a product of the European Enlightenment, or for that matter, inconceivable without the Western Secular States and/or science. That is a myth! A myth nurtured by some on both sides of the debate. On one side some atheists wish to present their skepticism toward the supernatural as a result of science’s progressive eclipse of religion, and on the other side the religious wish to see it as a pathological symptom of a decadent western world consumed by capitalism. 
Religion manifests in the imagery of the believer. We are all aware some believe in the ‘pink fluffy bits’ of the texts. I’m sure you recognize the ones who pull out the nice stuff, that will give them some modicum of secular reasoning to aid their belief system, nicely blanking out the ugliness in their biblical text.
e have been around for 200,000 years and with the introduction of writing we have the written laws of our ancestors. Now on a daily basis one of the most discussed pieces of sophistry is the belief that morality was created by the Abrahamic Religion.
In the 21st Century, the term “flat-earther” is used to describe someone who is spectacularly – and seemingly wilfully – ignorant. Also known as Flat Earth Myth, Flat Earthism and Platygeism, there is a group out there who claim the Earth really is flat.
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