I am an atheist. And I believe strongly that irrational worship of invisible ghosts and absent gods impedes humanity from taking responsibility for and fashioning a just, peaceful, equitable and sustainable world. By finding comfort and an all-encompassing worldview in bizarre millennia old illogical cults, humanity rejects ecological science and re-emergent intuition of the need and how to protect their Earthly habitat. Reading Richard Dawkins' book "God Delusion" has made it abundantly clear to me that there is no god and religion is evil.
Personal spirituality seeking the sacred is one thing, mass cultural mind-washing that insulates from ecological and other truths quite another. I share an equal disdain for worship of all false ancient long dead prophets whose myths have lead to conquest, war and misunderstanding of the human family's logical and truthful place within the world. Rituals that connect us with observable reverence for nature are more defensible as they are grounded in observable reality.
The history of the world's organized religions is one of genocide and ecocide. Contemporary religious mediocrity stifles progressive policies worldwide required to reduce population, deforestation and carbon emissions while equitably feeding, educating and meeting other basic needs for all. Evolution and ecology are fact, gods are unknowable make believe, and their belief is pollution stifling truth and killing the Earth.
For the past few hundred years tremendous progress has been made in understanding the cosmos, biosphere and panoply of life within which we live. Yet despite benefiting materially from science, most humans continue to depend upon a dizzying array of medieval superstitions to guide their lives.
Why bring this up now? Because truth matters. Either there is a god or not. Either we need ecosystems to live or not. Either humanity will evolve and reject false beliefs obscuring truth or not. Either we will change to sustain ecosystems or not. Superstitious worship of mythological beings hinders protection of the Earth and knowing reality, providing false comfort as the world is faced with hunger, war, abuse and an end to human and Earthly existence.
Poster's Comment: While I personally agree with virtually everything in Dr Barry's article, I realize that other's may not. -Shinai
Missionary The Learned
Joined: May 21, 2008
Posts: 128
Posted:
Sat May 24, 2008 3:58 am
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"Reading Richard Dawkins' book "God Delusion" has made it abundantly clear to me that there is no god and religion is evil. "
There's the next war shaping up. I wonder how many Columbine types will take this as their esoteric call to arms and turn their focus away from high schools and onto religious buildings?
MrSmith Newbie First Class
Joined: Mar 29, 2008
Posts: 48
Posted:
Sat May 24, 2008 5:01 am
I'm sure that you religious types will find several reasons to start yet another war before a few deranged lunitics (who just happened to be atheist) will join together and start a war. Honestly, I've lost track of the number of wars religious wack jobs have started. BTW...not all of your high school shootings were perperated by atheist.
Sliced_Bread Newbie First Class
Joined: Jan 08, 2008
Posts: 27
Posted:
Sat May 24, 2008 9:46 am
I find it humorous that if someone is speculated to be an atheist and commits a crime or act of violence it is a direct result of their atheism and on the other hand when a religious person commits a crime, they are crazy and no one is allowed to put blame on their religion. Well, unless they are Muslim.
Why can't Christianity be blamed for what it's followers do?
_________________ No god is better than no God.
Cygnus Resident
Joined: Mar 26, 2008
Posts: 379
Posted:
Sat May 24, 2008 10:00 am
Missionary wrote:
Quote:
"Reading Richard Dawkins' book "God Delusion" has made it abundantly clear to me that there is no god and religion is evil. "
There's the next war shaping up. I wonder how many Columbine types will take this as their esoteric call to arms and turn their focus away from high schools and onto religious buildings?
What percentage of the Atheist community do those people make up? The reason for their shooting up of schools is because, well, they are royally f***ed in the head. Just as Hitler, who called himself a Catholic, was royally f***ed in the head. Psychotics kill people not because of their belief, but because they're psychotic.
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