Sunday, March 1, 2009

I am Atheist, therefore I think


It really frustrates me to no end how many religious groups condemn homosexuals and wish to deny us rights. You would be very hard pressed to find a group of homosexuals making condemning religious groups their mission.

Many faiths/religions preach things such as peace and love thy neighbour: bullshit. There are far too many people who become indoctrinated by their faith and lose all ability to think rationally. It's just so convenient to have many of life's problems neatly spelled out in a book written millennia ago then in turn use this book as a form of rationality to commit mass murder and subjugate entire populations.

In short, the world would be a much better place in the absence of religion. Many people would no longer bear the minority status and its non-benefits, we would be far more advanced in many disciplines, and countless armed conflicts would not have happened and could be avoided, just to name a few.

“It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so”- Ernestine Rose
Posted by at 10:25 PM

2 comments:

  1. I think there is a huge difference between an atheist and an anti-theist. I teeter between the two and attempt to be very compassionate toward those still suffering from religious delusion. It's a sickness and can be treated.

    Now, if that didn't sound just like a religious zealot making their claims of superiority, then my effort at satire failed horribly.

    In an interview recently, I was asked what is harder (or less socially acceptable) - being an atheist, or being a homosexual. The question really struck me as I answered being an atheist - the rationale for my feeling that coming out as an atheist is harder than coming out as a homosexual was that people can excuse homosexuality under their religious beliefs as non soul-condemning, but atheism, well, they have to lay your eternal soul to rest as you can't get into heaven when you don't believe it exists. I've written a bit on the subject at my blog.

    For the record, some of the most evangelical people I've ever met declare themselves to be atheists.
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  2. Bloods and Krips... East Coast versus West Coast... Christianity versus Muslim... Whatever color you may floss, in the end your nothing but a brainwashed gang member. It is true that power exists in numbers, and that is the blind faith fueling the contempt of dogma.

    Atheismis just another attempt at placing a prejiduce based label.
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