Monday, March 08, 2010
From the urgent and compelling need for an atheistic religion, by Marie-Eve Martineau
Believing in God and life after death, it's pure (small) madness. Anyone who simply believes (without proselytizing) is a victim. As one who teaches broadcast and religions is a dangerous madman.
Why? Why are so intolerant of me?
Believing without evidence or explanation is characteristic of the child. Naturally, because it would take too long to explain, and because their reason (reasoning) is still mostly underdeveloped. It is a product of evolution: only those who believe and obey without thinking have survived and have therefore passed their genes. Unfortunately, the transition to adulthood, many of them continue to believe everything they are told without thinking too much ... and a small portion of them have understood the advantage to take advantage of the credulity and obedience. Hence the classical division of the society of men among those who have power, those dealing with religion, and others, all other more or less slaves but also producers of wealth consumed by the first two classes.
Believing in God, this is mostly part of a community living and enjoy a set of rules to respect and assistance of others. In short, a religion is primarily a binder allowing a community to remain united. At the cost of nonsense and a little madness, everyone was happy to feel part of a group that protects, albeit at the cost of the loss of real freedom ... because in those times, be free is to be alone, driven group, condemned to wandering and death.
But times have changed. The concept of community, once limited to a small group of men, then a tribe, then to a small nation, has exploded and these religions because they are naturally expansive and invasive, have conquered other peoples and d other territory, often by force, but sometimes also because they brought an improvement to other people. Finally, "better" means in relation to a small difference or a different concept of good and evil ...
And, in this scheme, therefore no place for the Atheist, one who has realized the folly of man's original and wishes to settle his life clearly face the inevitable: death. No place for the unbeliever, for the unbeliever, for ... many words are to describe the traitor, who has criticized the dogmas, one who has dared to say what he thinks, he who has dared to show others how madness they are. For to those who believe, understand and admit he was wrong his entire life is unbearable because what could he tell his children? he was wrong? because what could he tell his parents? they were wrong and they have been deceived? and how can he live once rejected by her community? assumed they would not kill him before he goes to spread the bad word ...
So for those who want to live out the foolishness of God, they are doomed to lose the benefit and comfort and help from a community. Here they are "lost" alone in front of the crowd seeking the friendship of others who, like them, have realized the folly of men, and want to preserve it, they and their families. But against the insidious and continual proselytizing religions, even those of them that might seem most impaired or wiser, they are disarmed. So for them to meet the gregarious qu'al'Homme need to get together with equal and co-religionists, there remains the solution to regroup in a new kind of church, atheist, whose goal is to provide its members everything that men have a natural need: the loving gaze of friends or caring, solidarity, support in the event, the contribution of a culture and a reflection on life and the world death: an atheist spirituality and rituals for all major stages of the life of a Man: Birth, transition to adolescence, transition to adult life, decision to start a family, and life after separation departure of children, sickness, old age and death. We all need that. But not stupid to believe a benevolent God or life after death reassuring. It is not reason to put forward. For the reason of man is very weak against what his unconscious mechanisms led him to do. But he is moving to another stage. The time is past stupid beliefs. Faced with this new world, full of science but also threats to our species survival time, we must invent and develop a new way to live together, in which spirituality has an important place, and free of stupid ideas whether Judeo-Christian or Buddhist or Hindu, or communist, or ... Otherwise, it is certain that no organization in communities strong atheists, religious madness of reconquered land and will again pay a high price for atheists their desire to have the freedom to think and daring to say clearly what they think of the folly of putting all his hopes in life after death.
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