It is repulsive that God allows so much pain, famine, death, and sin in this world that appears to serve no purpose in a spiritual nor biblical sense. If God was all-knowing, then he knew Eve would eat from the tree, he wanted to bring us pain. If that’s the case, and God exists and is just content with sitting on the sidelines, then this world has no use for God. This so-called God is merely cosmetic and not worthy of devotion. Humans are obsessed with themselves and many can’t accept the fact that we don’t mean a damn thing in this universe, that we are just a mere nothing, in the blink of time. No, they must think that they are all important and have a purpose in life and that somebody is watching over them.
Humans are social creatures, and they can’t stand the thought of being alone, but we are on our own. We live by our choices and we die alone just like any other animal. We are without a supreme deity who guides us through life and moral choices. Those moral choices come from within. Religion can only form a thin yet deceiving veil over an immoral person. Religion is natural way of humans to act in their obsessive compulsive ways, and is nothing more than a crutch for all to lean on in trying times, at its best. However, it is also responsible for some of the most bloodiest and gruesome conflicts in human history and can bring as much misery as it relieves. We should live by our own code of decency. We don’t need organized religion to guide us, nor hinder us in our choices.
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Atheism has been, and continues to be, truly feared by the promoters (clergy, theologians) of the apocalyptic Abrahamic philosophies (Judaism, Christianity, Moslem) …
… the question is [i]why[/i].
I think that Atheism, unlike opposing theological views within Abrahamism or even non-apocalyptic religions (Buddhism, Jainism, Shinto, Hinduism, Scientology, etc), presents [u]the complete and total invalidation of any possible existence beyond death[/u]. It is the atheist’s rejection of any and all eschalotological narratives that renders all theological (apocalyptic or otherwise) issues moot.
The real ontological issue then, as the Abrahamicist confronts the atheist worldview, is not whether a personally interested invisible alien (ie: “God”) exists; instead, I think [u]their true concern is the atheist’s premise that one’s finite earthly life represents the full and total extent of any sort of cosmic awareness[/u] … and [i]that[/i] not only scares the hell out of the Abrahamicist (literally), it potentially places their services (or more appropriately “scams”) as rabbis, priests, pastors, ministers, imams or caliphates in the same bovine manure-cart with, say, snake-oil salesmen.
As long as atheism posits this bleak finality of cosmic awareness, which of course can be its only rational stance, anxious self-interested Abrahamic promoters must continue to indoctrinate their gullible flocks to comprehend the atheist as an expected abberation which results from the influence of powerful demonic invisible aliens (ie: Satan, et al); thus the atheist is presented as a clear and present danger to the theist’s eschalogical well-being who should be necessarily shunned as a dangerous social outcast.
So, increasingly, I tell them (and this would include the whole spectrum from Christians to Scientologists) that I don’t subscribe to any narratives about after-lives and that [i][u]this[/u][/i] is all there is and [u]when I die it’s going to be just like before I was conceived[/u] … in other words, we have all been “dead” (ie: non-existent) before and that is what it is going to be like when I die: it’s a worry free reality … sort of a “Hakuna Matata” philosophy … (if “Hakuna Matata” doesn’t ring a bell then watch this … http://search.live.com/video/results.aspx?q=hakuna+matata&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&setflight=perftracking:on&setflight=7441&docid=1559116710446#docid=1558206742561 )
By not rejecting their invisible alien (or whatever) outright, it short-circuits their robotic ontological rebuttals and allows the door to open on their real concern: that there really is no life other than this one; for without that possibility, the question (and subsequent ridiculous debates) of whether personally interested invisible aliens (or whatever) exist or not becomes … well, silly … which is what the whole idea of “invisible alien belief” should be.
Hakuna Matata, Hakuna Matata, Hakuna Matata …
John
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