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3. God and Religion
3A. God:
Does God exist? Is he alive today?
God is invisible. And he may be deaf, dumb, blind, and/or indifferent too. Maybe he / she / they / it
doesn't even exist. Who knows?? How can you tell??
God exists only in the mind of man. His existence is not detectable anywhere
else. Therefore God is imaginary. He is not real. Imaginary. Literally imaginary. He is a figment
of man's imagination.
Ancient men created numerous imaginary gods and the religions to go with them.
There are 2 kinds of things in the world - real things and imaginary things. There would be a 3rd
category for supernatural things (things that exist but do not obey the laws of physics) if it could be
proven that they exist at this time, and have supernatural powers or properties. However, such proof
has not been forthcoming. And if it can not be proven that they exist and have supernatural powers,
then they must be imaginary - they only exist in your imagination. Therefore, there are as yet only 2
kinds of things in the world - real and imaginary.
Real things:
fictional, ...
To be real, God must be physically detectable. If he is undetectable then he is not real. If he is not
real then he must be imaginary. Thats it. That is the total sum of all possibilities. There are no
other possibilities.
God is imaginary !!!
All gods are imaginary!
All of the supernatural is imaginary !!!!!
We could stop here, for what more needs to be said about God?
Much more. God and religion stir deep emotions that have long haunted the mind of man. God
demands a more thorough exposition, and religion needs to be replaced with something more
constructive. So, to continue...
Man must have an explanation for everything, and in the absence of factual knowledge, he will fill the
void with imagination: imaginary gods (sun, moon, rain, thunder, fire, wind, sea, father, mother, etc,
etc.), creation myths (6 days to create an earth-centric universe and a human species without
progenitors; etc, etc), afterlife myths (Heaven, Hell, angles, demons, Valhalla, reincarnation, etc, etc.)
...
The gods were invented by ancient men (while sitting around a camp fire).
The religions were invented by ancient men (while sitting around a camp fire).
Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) was a ancient man.
Hinduism grew out of the folklore of ancient man.
Judaism grew out of the folklore of ancient man.
After hundreds of years of oral tradition (folklore), the Old Testament was finally written down over
the years from about 1000 BC to 600 BC by imaginary-god inspired ancient men, like Moses.
The commandments were carved in stone by a man. (Imaginary beings can not carve stone! Ergo,
Moses was a mason, and a liar.)
Jesus was a mortal man. (And allegedly the bastard son of God. But there is only one god?)
The New Testament was written by imaginary-god inspired men, long after the death of Jesus, but
later revised by imaginary-god inspired men, and some gospels were even expunged by imaginary-
god inspired men. The imaginary god should make up his mind.
The operative word here is man.
The things that you ascribe to God were told to you by man or your own imagination, and not by any
living supernatural being.
The existence of God is a matter of opinion, not fact, and your opinion is just as valid as anyone
else's, including all of the clergy of all of the churches in all of the world. Don't let anyone tell you
what to think about God. Nobody knows God. Nobody knows the mind of God. All anyone can tell
you is what they think (imagine) about God. Do your own thinking. "Thats why God gave you
intelligence."
The only people who have any chance of ever finding out anything about God are the scientists, as
they are the only ones who study the works of God. Clergy just study the works of man, like the Bible
and the writings of other theologians.
God did not write the bible, ancient men wrote the bible. These imaginary-god inspired ancient men
wrote about a man named Jesus doing miracles. But miracles are no more real then imaginary gods.
So Jesus was a mortal man and his miracles were man made myths. Therefore, the bible is not a
reliable source of information. (Especially about God, miracles, creation, astronomy, evolution...)
Dreams and apparitions are not reliable sources of information.
Altered states of consciousness and hallucinations are not reliable sources of information.
Information acquired by the scientific method is much more reliable.
Faith is belief in something for which there is no evidence, something unprovable.
In other words, faith is a guess.
Faith is not knowledge. Faith is not fact. Faith is not truth. Faith is nothing but unsubstantiated
belief (suspicion, superstition, assumption, guess, theory, custom, habit, tradition, ...).
Religion requires faith, and faith requires imagination and gullibility. And when it comes to religion,
then skepticism, doubt, logic, reason, investigation, examination, and experimentation are all
anathemas.
"You must have faith, you must believe in the imaginary god, or else you will go to the imaginary
hell."
Superstition and the supernatural go hand in hand.
You cannot physically detect supernatural things, you can only imagine them. Thats why they are
called imaginary.
The entire length and breath of the supernatural is a construction of human imagination -
Do you ever wonder why all of the gods are invisible? Its because they are all imaginary!
Do you ever wonder why God doesn't make appearances? Its because he is imaginary!
Do you ever wonder why God doesn't answer your prayers? Its because he is imaginary!
Do you ever wonder why God is indifferent to mankind? Its because he is imaginary!
Do you ever wonder why God did not strike down Hitler? Or Genghis Khan? Or ... IBHII!
Do you ever wonder why God doesn't beat up Allah? Its because they are both imaginary!
"You must believe in my imaginary god and his imaginary angles in their imaginary
heaven or else your imaginary soul will go to the imaginary hell to be tormented by
the imaginary devil and his imaginary demons, for all of eternity."
Where did God come from? When? Why? How?
And what's the thing about the Holy Ghost? Is the Holy Ghost God's imaginary friend?
What kind of being is God? Is he made of atoms? Does he breath air? drink water? eat? sleep?
etcetera? Is he anthropomorphous - mammalian, primate, bipedal... ?
Does he ware clothes? Why? What kind - ancient, modern, or what? (I bet he doesn't wear a tie.)
What is his favorite color?
Does he have family and friends? And enemies?
Where does he live? Which one of the 125 billion galaxies? Which one of the 25 thousand billion
billion star systems? Which one of the 100 thousand billion billion planets? Does he live here on the
surface of Earth? (What ZIP code?) Does he live in the sky, in a stealth Heaven that is in orbit
around Earth? Or does he live in some imaginary place?
(Are there any Neanderthals in heaven? Homo Erecti? How about Klingons? Alpha Centurians?)
Why doesn't God come to visit anymore? Maybe God is dead. Or dormant? Or maybe he is in
hiding. But why? What is he afraid of? Or maybe he is indifferent and just doesn't care about us
anymore?
When God and later his son "did" visit Earth (after waiting 13.7 billion years), why did they just visit
the Jews and ignore everyone else in the entire world? Are the Jews better than us? Are we
unworthy? Or is it just because the Jews were the ones who made up the story?
How does he get around in the universe? Can he exceed the speed of light? (Our galaxy's diameter
is 100 thousand light years wide; our universe is billions of light years wide!)
Maybe there is more than one god, say one for each star system, or each galaxy? (There are 200
billion stars in our galaxy and 125 billion galaxies in our universe.)
Why did he create all those extra galaxies, stars, and planets? All we need is one star, Sun, with one
planet, Earth, with an orbital period of exactly 364 days, and one satellite, Moon, with an orbital
period of exactly 28 days.
How is he able to create space, time, matter, energy? Where did all this stuff come from? When? ...
Why does he exist? What is his purpose in life? And what for? Who told him to do that? Why?
And where did his creators come from? How...? When...? Why...?
Etc., etc. ad infinitum.
Some questions are unanswerable. Ever. (That happens a lot when you ask questions
about imaginary things.)
And God can't help you. Remember, either he is an imaginary man or a quasi-real man who is
invisible, deaf and dumb. The only thing you can do is use your imagination and invent your own
answers, which is how the whole thing about God and religion got started in the first place.
All gods of all religions are man made myths that come to us from antiquity.
So, if our imaginary gods did not create the universe, who or what did? And how? Why? ...
Nobody knows. I dont know. You dont know. None of our scientists know. None of our preachers
know, despite what they say. Certainly imaginary gods do not know.
We will probably never know.
Thats the way it is. Deal with it.
Lets just say it was "The Source" - a thing or things of unknown origin, history, residence, and
nature. Some thing beyond our comprehension? Possibly an amoral and indifferent thing
(obviously male)? Maybe it's not a he but an it? Maybe without intelligence?
Maybe we should form a club to honor The Source, just in case... The Club of The Source. We
must retain ecclesiastic organ music and choirs (they make people feel good). And the ethereal
monumental architecture too (ditto)? But no "Book of The Source" !!! (Unless the book has all blank
pages.) Shall we have an icon? How about a flying sourcer? Or maybe just a question mark? Yes,
a question mark is perfect.
To join The Club of The Source?, send your money to me, the Grand Sourcerer.
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3B. Religion:
imaginary god ever wrote "The Book" on his religion. Religion is strictly a man thing. Prophets,
priests, apostles, witch-doctors, etc., invented and organized the religions and wrote the books.
Gods and their religions were the creations of some superstitious ancient men with active
imaginations who were seeking answers to the riddles of human life on planet Earth.
Where did we come from? How did we get here? Why did we come here? What is our purpose in
life? What happens to us when we die? Ancient men invented gods and religions to answer these
and other unanswerable questions. And people believed them. Why? Because they wanted to
believe them. They wanted to have answers, and there were no other answers, at that time.
But gods are imaginary. So then, religions are irrational, and irrelevant! Despite
what their priests and their huddled masses say.
Worshiping an invisible man is irrational.
Believing in supernatural beings is irrational.
Putting your faith and trust in an imaginary being is irrational.
To say that there is only one god - the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, is irrational.
Blindly believing what was written in a book by some ancient man or men is irrational.
Believing that the universe, the world, and the human species were created in 6 days is irrational.
Believing that human evolution did not occur, despite the enormous amount of evidence, is irrational.
Believing that God cares about how we design our civil calendar is irrational. (Even if there were a
God it would still be irrational.)
Religion is like a house of cards built on a foundation of belief that God is real. If God is not real
then all of those cards come tumbling down. God is imaginary. Religion is irrelevant.
Religion is a form of insanity where people think irrationally and act accordingly, like:
right evil.
Religious violence is religious evil.
Religious insanity is the source of religious evil.
The Catholic and Islamic religions are among the most evil human institutions the world has ever
known. The Catholics have now virtually stopped doing evil, but the Muslims are still hard at it.
Islam now stands alone as the world's most violent religion.
Religion remains a powerful political force in the world today. And Islam is the most powerful
religion.
Violence for the sake of an imaginary god is stupid !!! Really, really
stupid !!! Its like committing violence for the sake of your imaginary friend, or your Teddy Bear.
Religion creates false hope. " We dont have to worry, God will take care of us. ... God will protect
us. ... God will not let that happen. ... God will solve that problem." An imaginary god will do
nothing to help us. Either we take care of our problems ourselves or we will suffer the
consequences.
Religion creates naivety. "God is good. Muslims believe in God, therefore Islam cannot be evil.
Therefore the Koran does not tell Muslims to seek out and kill infidels." Wrong!!!
them to believe and they must do what the priests and the "Book" tell them to do, or else their
imaginary souls will go to the imaginary Hell.
Islam holds all its members in religious slavery - they do not allow religious freedom. The Muslim
people must do what the Koran and their clerics tell them to do or else they might be physically
punished, possibly severally, and their imaginary souls will go to their imaginary Hell.
Monotheism has given rise to religious intolerance and violent conflicts.
Paganism was much more benign (except for a few human sacrifices).
Its not religion, its just common sense. No rituals, no mumbo jumbo, no imaginary baggage, no evil.
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3C. Conclusions:
God exists only in the mind of man. Therefore God is imaginary. Therefore religion is irrelevant.
Imaginary gods are the result of self-deception. We should not do that to ourselves. We should
demand irrefutable physical evidence of our gods existence, their residence, and their powers, before
committing our belief in them. We should demand, or maybe respectfully request, that they write their
own bibles, in a clear, lucid and unambiguous language, instead of us accepting the confusing, self
contradicting, muddled parables and fables written by some self deluded, imaginary-god inspired
clerics.
We should differentiate between the real and the imaginary. Accept the real for what it is. Reject the
imaginary for what it is not (it is not real).
Accept the responsibility for writing our own codes of law, morals and manners. (We don't need an
imaginary-god inspired prophet or church cleric to do that for us.)
And accept the fact that we do not have all the answers about creation and probably never will.
An imaginary god is not a meaningful answer to anything at all.
Imaginary gods are not going to take care of any of our problems for us. We have to do that
ourselves or pay the consequences.
Imaginary gods and irrational churches are a part of our problems, not solutions.
Pull your head out of the clouds and take responsibility for your own life.
imaginary baggage. No political agenda. No evil. Maybe a social philosophy, a democratic moral code...
Religion should be replaced with a democratic social philosophy.
What should we do and not do in order to get along with our fellow man? And other creatures, and
other living things, and the world that we live on, and the nearby heavenly bodies?
We need a universal ethic that applies to every human and that pertains to all human intercourse -
personal, social, civil, professional, commercial, political; and that also pertains to man's relationship
with his environment - flora, fauna, earth, water, air, and cosmos.
All philosophers of all nations should work towards defining and establishing a universal ethic.
We are all cousins. Literally. And we should treat each other that way. (But dont ask me to loan you
any money.)
3A. God:
Does God exist? Is he alive today?
God is invisible. And he may be deaf, dumb, blind, and/or indifferent too. Maybe he / she / they / it
doesn't even exist. Who knows?? How can you tell??
God exists only in the mind of man. His existence is not detectable anywhere
else. Therefore God is imaginary. He is not real. Imaginary. Literally imaginary. He is a figment
of man's imagination.
Ancient men created numerous imaginary gods and the religions to go with them.
There are 2 kinds of things in the world - real things and imaginary things. There would be a 3rd
category for supernatural things (things that exist but do not obey the laws of physics) if it could be
proven that they exist at this time, and have supernatural powers or properties. However, such proof
has not been forthcoming. And if it can not be proven that they exist and have supernatural powers,
then they must be imaginary - they only exist in your imagination. Therefore, there are as yet only 2
kinds of things in the world - real and imaginary.
Real things:
- obey the laws of physics,
- have a physical presence, at this time,
- afford evidential proof of their existence,
- are not real until proven to be real.
fictional, ...
To be real, God must be physically detectable. If he is undetectable then he is not real. If he is not
real then he must be imaginary. Thats it. That is the total sum of all possibilities. There are no
other possibilities.
God is imaginary !!!
All gods are imaginary!
All of the supernatural is imaginary !!!!!
We could stop here, for what more needs to be said about God?
Much more. God and religion stir deep emotions that have long haunted the mind of man. God
demands a more thorough exposition, and religion needs to be replaced with something more
constructive. So, to continue...
Man must have an explanation for everything, and in the absence of factual knowledge, he will fill the
void with imagination: imaginary gods (sun, moon, rain, thunder, fire, wind, sea, father, mother, etc,
etc.), creation myths (6 days to create an earth-centric universe and a human species without
progenitors; etc, etc), afterlife myths (Heaven, Hell, angles, demons, Valhalla, reincarnation, etc, etc.)
...
The gods were invented by ancient men (while sitting around a camp fire).
The religions were invented by ancient men (while sitting around a camp fire).
Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) was a ancient man.
Hinduism grew out of the folklore of ancient man.
Judaism grew out of the folklore of ancient man.
After hundreds of years of oral tradition (folklore), the Old Testament was finally written down over
the years from about 1000 BC to 600 BC by imaginary-god inspired ancient men, like Moses.
The commandments were carved in stone by a man. (Imaginary beings can not carve stone! Ergo,
Moses was a mason, and a liar.)
Jesus was a mortal man. (And allegedly the bastard son of God. But there is only one god?)
The New Testament was written by imaginary-god inspired men, long after the death of Jesus, but
later revised by imaginary-god inspired men, and some gospels were even expunged by imaginary-
god inspired men. The imaginary god should make up his mind.
- (Why didn't Jesus write the bible? He should have written a "perfect" bible, flawless in every
way, with pictures. And why didn't the bible mention that the universe was 13.7 billion years old,
and that earth was 4.6 billion years old, and that the earth was round, and that it revolved
around the sun, and that man evolved from bacteria over the course of billions of years?
Why is the bible wrong about creation? I think you already know why - Ancient
men did not know about the lengthy evolution of the universe and the lengthy evolution of
mankind and, therefore, neither did their imaginary god.)
The operative word here is man.
The things that you ascribe to God were told to you by man or your own imagination, and not by any
living supernatural being.
The existence of God is a matter of opinion, not fact, and your opinion is just as valid as anyone
else's, including all of the clergy of all of the churches in all of the world. Don't let anyone tell you
what to think about God. Nobody knows God. Nobody knows the mind of God. All anyone can tell
you is what they think (imagine) about God. Do your own thinking. "Thats why God gave you
intelligence."
The only people who have any chance of ever finding out anything about God are the scientists, as
they are the only ones who study the works of God. Clergy just study the works of man, like the Bible
and the writings of other theologians.
God did not write the bible, ancient men wrote the bible. These imaginary-god inspired ancient men
wrote about a man named Jesus doing miracles. But miracles are no more real then imaginary gods.
So Jesus was a mortal man and his miracles were man made myths. Therefore, the bible is not a
reliable source of information. (Especially about God, miracles, creation, astronomy, evolution...)
Dreams and apparitions are not reliable sources of information.
Altered states of consciousness and hallucinations are not reliable sources of information.
Information acquired by the scientific method is much more reliable.
Faith is belief in something for which there is no evidence, something unprovable.
In other words, faith is a guess.
Faith is not knowledge. Faith is not fact. Faith is not truth. Faith is nothing but unsubstantiated
belief (suspicion, superstition, assumption, guess, theory, custom, habit, tradition, ...).
Religion requires faith, and faith requires imagination and gullibility. And when it comes to religion,
then skepticism, doubt, logic, reason, investigation, examination, and experimentation are all
anathemas.
"You must have faith, you must believe in the imaginary god, or else you will go to the imaginary
hell."
Superstition and the supernatural go hand in hand.
You cannot physically detect supernatural things, you can only imagine them. Thats why they are
called imaginary.
The entire length and breath of the supernatural is a construction of human imagination -
- gods, angles, devils, demons, heaven, hell, purgatory, miracles, immaculate conceptions,
resurrections, ascensions, holy trinities, omnipotence, eternal life, infallibility, invisibility, all
knowing, all seeing, souls, spirits, spooks, ghosts, ghouls, transmogrification, vampires,
werewolves, witches, wizards, goblins, zombies, boogie men, elves, sprites, fairies, gnomes,
ogres, trolls, Santa Clause, the Tooth Fairy, ...
Do you ever wonder why all of the gods are invisible? Its because they are all imaginary!
Do you ever wonder why God doesn't make appearances? Its because he is imaginary!
Do you ever wonder why God doesn't answer your prayers? Its because he is imaginary!
Do you ever wonder why God is indifferent to mankind? Its because he is imaginary!
Do you ever wonder why God did not strike down Hitler? Or Genghis Khan? Or ... IBHII!
Do you ever wonder why God doesn't beat up Allah? Its because they are both imaginary!
"You must believe in my imaginary god and his imaginary angles in their imaginary
heaven or else your imaginary soul will go to the imaginary hell to be tormented by
the imaginary devil and his imaginary demons, for all of eternity."
Where did God come from? When? Why? How?
And what's the thing about the Holy Ghost? Is the Holy Ghost God's imaginary friend?
What kind of being is God? Is he made of atoms? Does he breath air? drink water? eat? sleep?
etcetera? Is he anthropomorphous - mammalian, primate, bipedal... ?
Does he ware clothes? Why? What kind - ancient, modern, or what? (I bet he doesn't wear a tie.)
What is his favorite color?
Does he have family and friends? And enemies?
Where does he live? Which one of the 125 billion galaxies? Which one of the 25 thousand billion
billion star systems? Which one of the 100 thousand billion billion planets? Does he live here on the
surface of Earth? (What ZIP code?) Does he live in the sky, in a stealth Heaven that is in orbit
around Earth? Or does he live in some imaginary place?
(Are there any Neanderthals in heaven? Homo Erecti? How about Klingons? Alpha Centurians?)
Why doesn't God come to visit anymore? Maybe God is dead. Or dormant? Or maybe he is in
hiding. But why? What is he afraid of? Or maybe he is indifferent and just doesn't care about us
anymore?
When God and later his son "did" visit Earth (after waiting 13.7 billion years), why did they just visit
the Jews and ignore everyone else in the entire world? Are the Jews better than us? Are we
unworthy? Or is it just because the Jews were the ones who made up the story?
- The Jewish god is imaginary. Just as imaginary as all of the Greek gods, Roman gods, Norse
gods, ..., Egyptian, Sumerian, Mesopotamian, Persian, Indian, Tlinkit, Navajo, Aztec, Mayan,
Incan ... (It took the Jews to think up one god to replace all of the other gods.)
How does he get around in the universe? Can he exceed the speed of light? (Our galaxy's diameter
is 100 thousand light years wide; our universe is billions of light years wide!)
Maybe there is more than one god, say one for each star system, or each galaxy? (There are 200
billion stars in our galaxy and 125 billion galaxies in our universe.)
Why did he create all those extra galaxies, stars, and planets? All we need is one star, Sun, with one
planet, Earth, with an orbital period of exactly 364 days, and one satellite, Moon, with an orbital
period of exactly 28 days.
How is he able to create space, time, matter, energy? Where did all this stuff come from? When? ...
Why does he exist? What is his purpose in life? And what for? Who told him to do that? Why?
And where did his creators come from? How...? When...? Why...?
Etc., etc. ad infinitum.
Some questions are unanswerable. Ever. (That happens a lot when you ask questions
about imaginary things.)
And God can't help you. Remember, either he is an imaginary man or a quasi-real man who is
invisible, deaf and dumb. The only thing you can do is use your imagination and invent your own
answers, which is how the whole thing about God and religion got started in the first place.
All gods of all religions are man made myths that come to us from antiquity.
So, if our imaginary gods did not create the universe, who or what did? And how? Why? ...
Nobody knows. I dont know. You dont know. None of our scientists know. None of our preachers
know, despite what they say. Certainly imaginary gods do not know.
We will probably never know.
Thats the way it is. Deal with it.
Lets just say it was "The Source" - a thing or things of unknown origin, history, residence, and
nature. Some thing beyond our comprehension? Possibly an amoral and indifferent thing
(obviously male)? Maybe it's not a he but an it? Maybe without intelligence?
Maybe we should form a club to honor The Source, just in case... The Club of The Source. We
must retain ecclesiastic organ music and choirs (they make people feel good). And the ethereal
monumental architecture too (ditto)? But no "Book of The Source" !!! (Unless the book has all blank
pages.) Shall we have an icon? How about a flying sourcer? Or maybe just a question mark? Yes,
a question mark is perfect.
To join The Club of The Source?, send your money to me, the Grand Sourcerer.
- May The Source? be with you. And have a nice day.
- What do you think happened before the Source? came along?
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3B. Religion:
imaginary god ever wrote "The Book" on his religion. Religion is strictly a man thing. Prophets,
priests, apostles, witch-doctors, etc., invented and organized the religions and wrote the books.
Gods and their religions were the creations of some superstitious ancient men with active
imaginations who were seeking answers to the riddles of human life on planet Earth.
Where did we come from? How did we get here? Why did we come here? What is our purpose in
life? What happens to us when we die? Ancient men invented gods and religions to answer these
and other unanswerable questions. And people believed them. Why? Because they wanted to
believe them. They wanted to have answers, and there were no other answers, at that time.
But gods are imaginary. So then, religions are irrational, and irrelevant! Despite
what their priests and their huddled masses say.
Worshiping an invisible man is irrational.
Believing in supernatural beings is irrational.
Putting your faith and trust in an imaginary being is irrational.
To say that there is only one god - the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, is irrational.
Blindly believing what was written in a book by some ancient man or men is irrational.
Believing that the universe, the world, and the human species were created in 6 days is irrational.
Believing that human evolution did not occur, despite the enormous amount of evidence, is irrational.
Believing that God cares about how we design our civil calendar is irrational. (Even if there were a
God it would still be irrational.)
Religion is like a house of cards built on a foundation of belief that God is real. If God is not real
then all of those cards come tumbling down. God is imaginary. Religion is irrelevant.
Religion is a form of insanity where people think irrationally and act accordingly, like:
- The Charles Manson clan, Waco, Jonestown, the Ku Klux Klan, Muslim terrorists, Christian
crusaders, worshiping invisible gods, witch burning, heretic burning, human sacrifice, holy wars,
...
right evil.
Religious violence is religious evil.
Religious insanity is the source of religious evil.
The Catholic and Islamic religions are among the most evil human institutions the world has ever
known. The Catholics have now virtually stopped doing evil, but the Muslims are still hard at it.
Islam now stands alone as the world's most violent religion.
Religion remains a powerful political force in the world today. And Islam is the most powerful
religion.
Violence for the sake of an imaginary god is stupid !!! Really, really
stupid !!! Its like committing violence for the sake of your imaginary friend, or your Teddy Bear.
Religion creates false hope. " We dont have to worry, God will take care of us. ... God will protect
us. ... God will not let that happen. ... God will solve that problem." An imaginary god will do
nothing to help us. Either we take care of our problems ourselves or we will suffer the
consequences.
Religion creates naivety. "God is good. Muslims believe in God, therefore Islam cannot be evil.
Therefore the Koran does not tell Muslims to seek out and kill infidels." Wrong!!!
them to believe and they must do what the priests and the "Book" tell them to do, or else their
imaginary souls will go to the imaginary Hell.
Islam holds all its members in religious slavery - they do not allow religious freedom. The Muslim
people must do what the Koran and their clerics tell them to do or else they might be physically
punished, possibly severally, and their imaginary souls will go to their imaginary Hell.
Monotheism has given rise to religious intolerance and violent conflicts.
Paganism was much more benign (except for a few human sacrifices).
Its not religion, its just common sense. No rituals, no mumbo jumbo, no imaginary baggage, no evil.
- Do you measure up?
- Everyone has the right to believe in the god of their choice, but no one has the right to impose
their religious beliefs, customs and habits on anyone else. - Gods are man made myths that come to us from antiquity and, therefore, religions are irrational
and irrelevant. - It is absolutely mind boggling to think of the enormous number of people who over the ages have
believed in imaginary gods and their religions. - It is also mind boggling to think of the enormous amount of pain, suffering, death and destruction
that they have caused in the past and are still causing today, in the name of their imaginary gods. - Separate religion from politics and government. Outlaw all violent fundamentalists. Outlaw
Islam until it reforms to be completely nonviolent and supports all UN human rights.
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3C. Conclusions:
God exists only in the mind of man. Therefore God is imaginary. Therefore religion is irrelevant.
Imaginary gods are the result of self-deception. We should not do that to ourselves. We should
demand irrefutable physical evidence of our gods existence, their residence, and their powers, before
committing our belief in them. We should demand, or maybe respectfully request, that they write their
own bibles, in a clear, lucid and unambiguous language, instead of us accepting the confusing, self
contradicting, muddled parables and fables written by some self deluded, imaginary-god inspired
clerics.
We should differentiate between the real and the imaginary. Accept the real for what it is. Reject the
imaginary for what it is not (it is not real).
Accept the responsibility for writing our own codes of law, morals and manners. (We don't need an
imaginary-god inspired prophet or church cleric to do that for us.)
And accept the fact that we do not have all the answers about creation and probably never will.
An imaginary god is not a meaningful answer to anything at all.
Imaginary gods are not going to take care of any of our problems for us. We have to do that
ourselves or pay the consequences.
Imaginary gods and irrational churches are a part of our problems, not solutions.
Pull your head out of the clouds and take responsibility for your own life.
imaginary baggage. No political agenda. No evil. Maybe a social philosophy, a democratic moral code...
Religion should be replaced with a democratic social philosophy.
What should we do and not do in order to get along with our fellow man? And other creatures, and
other living things, and the world that we live on, and the nearby heavenly bodies?
We need a universal ethic that applies to every human and that pertains to all human intercourse -
personal, social, civil, professional, commercial, political; and that also pertains to man's relationship
with his environment - flora, fauna, earth, water, air, and cosmos.
All philosophers of all nations should work towards defining and establishing a universal ethic.
We are all cousins. Literally. And we should treat each other that way. (But dont ask me to loan you
any money.)
- Why can't we have peace on earth and goodwill to all mankind? Why??
- What will it take to have peace on earth and goodwill to all mankind? (Worldwide separation of
the church and the state? Universal acceptance of all UN Human Rights? A universal ethic?
The elimination of weapons of mass destruction? International inspection teams? ...) - It is up to us to figure it out. No imaginary god is going to do that for us.
1985?
Last amended:
2012-5-11
Last amended:
2012-5-11
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