*CAUTION* this post is not for the religiously sensitive, or faint of heart. if you wish to bless me, pray for my salvation, find the light or curse me, save it. if you think its that bad then just wait 200 years and we can debate it in hell. Otherwise, I hope you enjoy this and if you have any debatable comments, drop them in and we'll discuss 'em. They may even lead to my next post. I say again, NO RELIGIOUS BULLSHIT ABOUT ME BLASPHEMING. If you don't like it, don't read it. simple:)
Religion. We have been brought up with it. It has nurtured our lives, spreading falsified stories of grandeur and order only if you believe in this “god”. It gives us a hope, even though it may be false, in bettering our lives. And we grow up, becoming more in depth. I, at one stage believed. And I too was blinded. Religion does not want you to think. Does not want you to look behind the veils of deceit, so elaborately spun. And so we submit. And to subdue us are those pastors and holy men, who preach end of days and a burning fate if we do not believe in the “One True God”, yet there are many for the religions, all backing their claims up as having the same god with different names, different personalities, different texts, different prophets, different lies, which culminate into one grotesque lie keeping us from moving on scientifically and evolutionarily.
This is a one-sided view, however. To assume that religion has only affected the world negatively would be naïve and unjust. It has only done so recently. Throughout history religion has left its black mark, but only recently has it become a wall separating progress, and advance.
Religion was necessary, at one point. It gave us laws, and enforced them with biblical penalties and a fear of an all-powerful “god”. It has caused barbarous tribes to form civilizations and live in relative peace in their community. Only when those religions became aware of others, did they become a negative influence, where holy wars raged and abominations committed were justified by the “true god”, where all they were achieving was slaughtering each other like their sacrifices, and destroying generations of genes that could have bettered the next generation.
Most concepts we have adopted today are due to religion. Law. Order. Justice. Racism. Destruction. Revenge. Death. The Spanish inquisition, jihad, the crusades, all of these and more are figments of a lie created to blind the masses into a submissive belief.
However, let’s look at how humanity has made progress. The internet, once exclusively military, has fallen into the hands of the local populace. The automobile, aircrafts, fire crackers, yoyos, plastics, all of these and much more originated from military funding, introduced to the local populace, and advancing our technology. Religion helped because religion caused these wars. But is it necessary to wage wars to advance in technology? No. but it helps. When one side wishes to be more advanced, more prepared and better equipped for battle, technological advancement becomes more of an incentive, and thus new inventions are born, to destroy, and then better our world.
However, new squabbles have arisen. Religion has become out dated. Encouraging a shun of free thought and scientific discovery, lest we find god, kill it and claim its power for our own. Or worse: prove there is no god. Proving the truth: that everything is a coincidence, that life has no meaning. The zealots of the religious sects would crumble, their hopes and beliefs dashed, would become homicidal and suicidal, generally speaking, they’d become antisocial.
A Christian paleontologist is a contradiction. How can one study fossils and still believe in “perfect design”, yet it exists. And their zealous belief keeps them safe from a truth.
“When I was a child, I played a child, saw as a child, and spoke as a child, thought as a child. Now that I have matured, I put childish things aside”. And this too needs to be put aside. There is a time for everything. The British had theirs, as to have the Romans, the Greeks, Chinese, Mongolians, Spanish, and German. They all had their chance in history, but in the end were put aside. The tenacity of the existence of religion only proves to me one thing…it is the greatest con history has ever witnessed. A con where, if ones faith wavers, he convinces himself otherwise and comes up with an excuse.
In this day and age, anyone can start a religion. A Jew nailed to a tree. A man that sees an angel in a cave. A science fiction writer. An Egyptian prince, the list is endless as are the variations and the prophets. In this point I say, maybe I should claim to be a prophet. I shall start my own religion and become eternal in doing so. I am accepting any donations. My account number is…..
From atheist to reader, I bid you god bless ;)
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