This week I was interested in how simplistic theists wish to be, how they prefer to stay in the dark.
The Age Of Enlightenment was an era from the 1650’s to 1780’s in which cultural and intellectual forces in Western Europe emphasised reason, analysis and individualism, rather than traditional lines of authority.
It challenged the authority of the Catholic Church and searched for ways to reform society with tolerance, science and skepticism.
Alas the Age of Enlightenment seems to pass the majority of theists by. You can check out the news and articles for any day of the week and find abuse and hatred for other human beings based on religious prejudice. Here are a few from searching witchcraft
WITCHCRAFT
- India tribal woman suspected of witchcraft – a 35 year old woman has been brutally gang raped allegedly by six men who suspected her of practicing witchcraft. The latest incident took place in Kemrara, Madhya Pradesh. Some villagers suspected the woman of witchcraft because some children had fallen ill and died. The woman said “nobody came to help her when she was being raped and tortured” But they heard her screams
- Africa – 17 arrested after “Limpopo” witchcraft attack. The violence started on Monday evening when residents in Nancefield arrived at the house of a 70 year old Pastor. He had apparently been seen in a video saying he was involved in witchcraft and that his teenage daughter was an evil spirit. The local community went to his home on Monday night and tried to burn it down with the family inside.
- Albino baby hacked to death in Tanzania’s latest witchcraft related death. The one year old boy, Yohana Bahati was taken from his home in Chato district. The babies mother Esther Jones is in hospital after being attacked with a machete to her face and hands as she treid to protect her son. Albinism is an hereditary condition causing lack of pigmentation in the skin. It affects one Tanzanian in 1,400 and be linked to inbreeding. In the West it affect 1 in 20,000.
None of the above are helped by the fact the Vatican still believe in the old mumbo jumbo and this year have in fact trained even more priests as exorcists to remove demons and possession. All of which science has given ample proof for and are usually fits. Christianity whilst receding in the west is growing in Africa and the South American and so i suggest the Catholic Church bring themselves up to date with science and forget the bronze age bullshit they love to push regarding the devil and all its insane mentalities.
THE GOD DELUSION
I spoke to a Christian recently and he was sincere in his argument that all atheists are mentally ill. When going into a little more detail it seems he found the simple fact we over think his reason for saying so . As he said:-
“It is my view that the existence of a creator is the most provable of all realities and that the proofs are many and sufficient”
A claim even more surprising, because he saw no holes in his supposed logical statement, he has been so well indoctrinated and brain washed simply making a comment without any proof seemed perfectly normal to him. He has been conditioned to believe anything.
Funny that huh? He didn’t seem to be able to go into more detail. When pushed his belief basically boiled down to the fact that he saw a belief in god as a mechanism to block out the source of pain and therefore leaving him to function without being over-whelmed by mental discomfort.
Distilled into a single sentence “Ignorance is Bliss” or to put it another way “ Im scared of the dark” Wow right? I stepped away from this poor human being , to discuss more would have been to hurt his brain and possibly make him think, which i have to say was probably beyond his capabilities. Oh by the way this man has 3 off spring he home schools! Wow.
Im assuming to be a theist you have to have the following qualities:-
- To have an acute form of mental blindness/deafness
- To be prolific in circular reasoning
- lack a need for a foundation for your belief system
- Never question
On speaking to an ex-christian friend of mine, we discussed his moment of freedom from religion after almost thirty years as a Catholic. He summed it up pretty well for me :-
“From my teen years I started to have questions regarding god and the bible, but since they could not be explained i filed them away on a mental shelf titled ‘unresolveable’. Eventually such questions became too heavy to deny and ignore any longer. My ‘mental shelf’ simply broke and I could no longer live in delusion and doubt, i was set free from a life of indoctrination”
FAITH AND RATIONALITY
Faith – is a belief that is held with lack of – inspite of or against reason and evidence.
Rationality – is based on reason and facts.
So going back to our Christian who saw Atheism as a mental illness. I want to know the level of mentality of our theists, because I really cannot imagine the levels of cognitive dissonance you practice to achieve your closed minded introspections.
How difficult it must be to go through your daily life cherry picking and closing your eyes to the world around you. Almost unachievable no? We look at the like so Ray Comfort and Ken Ham. Despite all proof to the contrary they take time and effort to throw their unsubstantiated bullshit up to their theist believers. Gullibility seems to be the order of the day the more crazy the ideology the more easy for them to believe.
A theist reasoning is completely circular but you don’t realise it. Such is mind control, your reasoning is subdued to an “infallible truth” that can never be wrong and edits your reality”
“YOU BELIEVE IN GOD BECAUSE YOU WERE TOLD TO”
IN CONCLUSION
Religions and their texts are not divinely inspired, but man made to fulfil social, biological and political needs.
Religions were formulated at the time when the origin of life, the workings of the body and the nature of the stars and planets were poorly understood.
“the religious texts they use as their moral compass stems from the bronze age…. basically … they didn’t know any better, you have no such excuse
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These are troubling times for the theist community as science makes even greater strides, filling the gaps in our understanding of the world around us. How each day will make it harder and harder to re assess and try to explain away using their goat herder texts.
These religious texts were intended to give solace and a sense of relationship with natures forces. They have served an important function in ancient society, however, continuing to hold onto that belief system is no longer useful.
To move forward you need to embrace the modern age, using logic and analytical thinking favouring reason over indoctrinated beliefs
Your religious ‘views’ are just that
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“When pushed his belief basically boiled down to the fact that he saw a belief in god as a mechanism to block out the source of pain and therefore leaving him to function without being over-whelmed by mental discomfort.”
I call that cowardice.
“These are troubling times for the theist community as science makes even greater strides, filling the gaps in our understanding of the world around us.”
As I have said elsewhere, now that we have proven the existence of the Higgs field, a physical entity that permeates and fills absolutely everything everywhere. There are no more gaps for God to hide in.
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Theists seem to be an alien species Andy… 😏😏😏
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I particularly enjoyed the highlighting of the preposterous belief in witchcraft and the subsequent punishments handed out by the self appointed moral executors! Real medieval absurdity abounds in many dark, archaic corner of this planet.
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Hi Jay
Many thanks for reading, i find religious craziness tantamount to witchcraft and voodoo… Im sure thsts where Catholicism gets its freaky ideas from
😜😜😜😜
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Nobody is an atheist in a crashing airplane!
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Correction everyone is an atheist in a crashing plane.
Your born an atheist and you die an atheist 😉
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Tell me honestly, if you are in a crashing plane and you know you are about to die, would you not for a moment suddenly think about God and pray for your life or expect God to do a miracle, putting aside all your rational faculties?
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Hahahaa.
Really are you serious… Gods are man made. 😊
Now you tell me in a crashing plane how much time do you think you have to pray to all 2998 gods created by man … Just in case 😉😉
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Well, I would like to know what explanation you have for the creation, if it’s not for god? 😊 BTW when I speak about god, I don’t mean a giant santa clause like old man sitting in the sky. For me god simply means energy or a life force ☺️. Therefore, don’t attribute “2998 gods” to me. If you made that reference to me becoz I am hindu then I would like to clarify Hindus don’t believe in multiple gods, they simply seek perfection which ever way best suits them.
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Then i will be honest with you….. I was born atheist… So have no need and never have had for any of the various man made gods.
With regards to creation i suggest you read up on The Big Bang and evolution…. There is no intelligent designer…
i have no problem with people believing in any mythology as long as it doesn’t infringe on the reality of a secular society.
Enjoy the rest of your day …. 😊
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Respectfully agreeing with the view that religion or belief has become more a source of conflict than peace in the secular society. Moreover, scientific revelations in last 200 years have proven most gruesome massacres and genocides carried out were by those who were irrationally entitled to their beliefs. Now realizing that all the bloodshed in the name of belief which science strongly refutes today with overwhelming evidence, naturally makes anyone think, what the hell we were doing??? Therefore, It’s quite natural for any reasonable person to give up his/her belief that is unreasonable and conflicting with modern science.
You said there was no intelligent designer of our universe. I will grant you that if you show me one creation by science that can come close to or be equated to any of the natural creations?
By reading Darwin and Big Bang, I will just learn the process how it happened. It’s like a medical doctor who can explain the entire human anatomy and physiology but cannot necessarily create a human by artificial means(no human DNA).
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1 there are no natural creation stories that are based on factual evidence
2 i was born atheist – so didn’t give up any belief whatever – basically the default setting – that i guess u did not have the benefit of… You were indoctrinated based on parents religion and geographical religious identity
3 your suffering from cognitive dissonance
4 u mention ur a hindu i suspect re ur comment you are n fact a Pantheist
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1. By natural creation I meant things that are in existence naturally like rocks, stones, you and me.
2. Good for you
3. Why would you say that? I have no conflicting ideas.
4. I have no problem being a pantheist. However, It doesn’t mean I start worshipping everything I come across from morning to night. Pantheist just to the extent of appreciating the nature.
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It’s been said before. I wouldn’t be praying to God, I’d more likely be screaming for my Mum!
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Why would you even shout for your mum? Do you believe she can save you?
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Just as much chance of it as there is of God helping… And at least my Mum exists!
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Atheism leads to immense pessimism and obstructs percolation of positive energy or God, whatever you want to call it, in one’s body. Positivity is essential for humans to overcome stress, anxiety, depression, etc. Medical research show evidence that people who subscribe to the idea of God recover sooner than atheists.
Atheists argue that God is man made. Who cares if God is real or man made as long as it gives results, i.e, benefiting people. Even if God is man made, there must have been a positive purpose behind inventing it. Just like every invention can be used and misused, even God has been misused by some religions. You can’t paint the idea of God in different religions with the same brush. Just because some religions have caused havoc in the world you cannot dismiss the idea of God. There are so many other religions, especially the eastern ones, that have existed for thousands of years without having conflict with each other.
And if science, logics, rationality, etc, is the argument of atheists to conclude there is no God then the argument is highly weak becoz science proves nothing. No physicist can be certain about any physical law to be absolute or infallible. Science is all about “So far so good.” Tomorrow another Einstein can pop up and change the entire way of looking at the universe.
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I disagree.. Atheism promotes reality. God is non existant so is neither negative or positive energy.
God is your fear of the dark is all… The monster under your bed… Your fear of death is all
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There are deeper dimensions of spirituality that’s leads one to submit to God, not “God is your fear of the dark is all… The monster under your bed… Your fear of death is all.” Very puerile!!👶
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I now require citations for all of your ridiculous claims.
Also, as an atheist I’m not a pessimist.
And yes I really CAN dismiss the idea of God.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1305900/pdf/bumc0014-0352.pdf
There are several other studies. This is one of them
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Re-read it and note how religion has had a deleterious effect on healing.
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Simple placebo effect… No more no less …
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Like I said, idea of God can be both used and misused. However, the paper does say “Generally, spirituality leads to positive coping” on pg 4. Now, if you want turn a blind eye to the overwhelming positive outcomes and just focus the few negative ones then it’s up to you.
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Or a self coping mechanism we have with no reason for god 😉😉
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Self copying and self improving 😉
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Thats your perception and your need for a god…. That is peurile 😉
If your get peer reviewed papers on proof of spiritual gods i will read em
Ps cant wait for your view on my immortality post… Hopefully we will agree on that subject 😉😉
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