Dear God

Aside from the fact that there can be no misinterpretation of that written by the Omniscience, either: religion (the belief you have directives from the creator of the universe) is most easily construed to reassure and rally sociopaths; or it creates them.

That is to say nothing of the social and personal cost of not being self-critical about the nature of truth.

Of land and religion, the two predominant justifications for war, which is an integral part of life, and which can be argued is rooted in mere fiction?

Is it possible that those attributing the good they do, to religion, would do good irregardless, and only so misidentify their inspiration, for hope that religion can in fact be compelling enough to deter wrongdoers.

 

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PURSUIT OF ONLY THE MOST UNQUESTIONABLE TRUTHS

The claim to know that there is no conscious being responsible for this universe, is as absurd as the claim to know that there indeed is one.

I define ‘theist’ to mean one who suspects God responds to human behavior, and ‘atheist’ to mean everyone without that assumption.

Even if nothing can be known for certain, not all hypotheses are equally plausible. It is far more likely that 1+1=2, than that 1+1=3.

It is far more likely that the gods humans have worshiped throughout history are all equally man made, than to imagine the designer of time and space found it a meaningful challenge, adding to the mix his own scripture, which indeed to many, can not be distinguished from the litter.

It is far more likely that the complexity of matter is so profound it could evolve to become the consciousness we experience, than it is to image that nature is at times suspended to say- split a sea to accommodate a group of fleeing slaves who descend from the first human to correctly guess the number of existing gods.

Whereas the faithful submit their position is rooted in hope, the case can be made that the atheistic position is objectively far more probable.

 

Why does a life of celibate devotion not deter deviant priests?

Why are mortars typically of those who hold a notion of an afterlife?

Sensationalism aside, well intentioned beliefs of individuals significantly impact us all.

Why are those resisting the science of evolution and climate, typically Theists?

Why are those insisting sexual orientation is a choice, and objecting a woman’s right to choose, typically Theists?

It is only once understanding that theism is untrue, that one begins to experience the gravity of religion’s consequence.

Aim to root your beliefs in as unquestionable truths as possible.

 

What are love, art and the question of spatiotemporal limits, if not evidence of something more? Can evidence be inconclusive? “I don’t know!”

Can human being’s confidence they know the will of a creator be construed to justify any immorality? Are all claims to know the will of a creator, equally questionable?

Can empathy exist without revelation? Does ‘survival of the fittest’ negate the notion of empathy?

Can negativity be positive? Should evil be hated?

Is ‘hope’ of value when it’s false?

Had you the means to invent conscious beings, that experience, joy and pain, would you? Is G-d love?

Deception

Telling a child to be confident regarding that about which you yourself have doubt, is indefensible.

Consuming a child’s youth with devotional service, is heartbreaking.

Ritual

Though there can be no evidence disproving supernatural claims, there is plenty of reason to suspect that religions are man made.

Fascism ≠ Atheism

Must we commit to faith based belief, even if it inspires a culture of violent extreme, because generations ago a genocidal dictator is said to have lacked fear in a creator?

The catholic church celebrated Hitler’s birthday every year until his death. In 1943 the church declared Stalin “The Divinely Anointed Ruler”. Mao ruled as himself a god.

If these men were in fact atheist, it was not expressed with nearly as much adamants as “god is great” is pronounced nowadays.

“Find a society that said we adopted the teachings of Lucretius, Democritus, Galileo, Spinoza, Darwin, Russell, Jefferson, Thomas Paine and Albert Einstein, we make that, scientific and rational humanism our teachings, find me the state that did that and fell into tyranny, slavery, famine, torture and genocide, then we’ll be on a level playing field.” -CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Humanity

If you need religion in order to be a good person, you’re not a good person.

Intuition

Is it possible that members of religions other than your own are just as confident that theirs is the one true religion, as you are it is yours?

Evidence

No amount of historical records could convince me that nature is sometimes suspended.

Suspicious

Why is it that the religion most people find to be true, just so happens to be the very one they were born into?

Information

I don’t claim there is no god. I only submit that any claim that there is a god, is no more credible than any other work of fiction.

Literature

Don’t believe everything you read, especially when the author claims to be the creator of the universe.

Right Message Wrong Messenger

The argument can be made that Mel Gibson was right in saying “Jews (the initial and therein too, the subsequent abrahamic religions) are responsible for all the wars in the world”, and Donald Trump has a case for the travel ban. In Canaanite times it’d have been the Jews, and Christians the middle ages, who operated on the most testosterone. Only both Gibson and Trump are professed Christians and unlike religiophobia which is justified, if you yourself believe to know the mind of God, by what criteria can you hold any holy warrior at fault.

Though the claim “to have directives from God” is typically just employed to promote our natural tendency to the Golden Rule, it also lends itself more easily to justify violence than all else.

This is to say nothing of the personal and social cost for simply diluting the definition of ‘truth’.

 

 

 

 

Belief is an, at times, necessary concession, not an idol to be sought.

The word ‘truth’ appears 222 times in the Bible, and 0 times in a math textbook.

“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”
― Voltaire

“The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.” ―Neil deGrasse Tyson

History

If you think religion can be practiced by its followers without interfering in the lives of others, your failing to account for the past couple of thousand years.

“Just because you’re offended, doesn’t mean you’re right.” ―RICKY GERVAIS