Personal Deity: Destroying the very pillars in which they stand.

When challenged, a christian will have some pre-configured arguments that they overheard from their filthy priest; and they amazingly use this in verbatim without knowing what they're really talking about. Here's the list, it isn't complete:

He is real because he is real, it's reality.

The argument that they are using here is a big fallacy, you can't prove something just by telling us that it is; the same is true when I tell you that “you are stupid because you are just stupid”; we need to provide supporting arguments to our statements.

“It's reality”. This has been used in many situations, and the last time that I heard this line is when I tried to argue with my cousin. The problem with this is that, it's their reality, but it can't be a universal fact; no matter how hard we try to tell everyone that it is reality, that it is because it is, if it is wrong then it is wrong. Try arguing with your teacher on an exam, most of the time, it's going to be your loss.

I can feel it, can't you?

I can't; does this mean that he isn't real? Not necessarily so – if we just base it on that statement.

The problem with this one is, obviously, the deadly appeal to emotions; somehow, these christians doesn't want to recognize that they are committing such a dangerous fallacy – maybe because they don't want to sound childish.

Appealing to emotions will let you draw conclusions that do not conform with (even the basic) logic. Have you ever tried talking to anyone when you are in your worst mood? Did it go well? Have you tried to forgive someone out of pity, did it go well? Have you ever let someone do something wrong out of fear or pity, how did it go? Have you ever tried to sweet-talk your teacher to overlook your failing grade and pass you, did he pity you? How many times did your emotions lead you to stupid conclusions?

Let's be honest.

It's hard to explain.

Ergo god is real? You must be kidding me.

Can you disprove that god is real?

The burden of proof lies on the positive side; therefore, you have to prove to me that your statements are indeed material.

To help you understand this better, let's turn the tables for a bit. Beside my laptop sits a small box, and in this box, contains a mighty dragon named Jebus that eats gods – sorry Homer. Can you disprove that there isn't a dragon in the box? By the way, the box is invisible.

You can't disprove it? Alas, Jebus is real.

Personal Deity: How their god is formed.

Before I formally start this topic, I would like to point out that the premise [personal deity] does not apply to all theists -- so as to avoid additional confusion and headache.

Some christians have their own personal brand of what a god is and isn't; whether he is a loving god or whatnot, it does not matter. This topic will try to produce evidences or at least arguments that having this reasoning [god is something personal] will result to a man-governed-idea-of-what-god-is and some social issues.


What is the effect of having such claims?

For the personal deity believers, it goes without saying that god is produced by what they think he is; the reason for this is that: they don't have any boundaries nor specific guidelines that will serve as rules to the limitations of what god is. They are free to think whatever they want, and as long as they can formulate a fairly reasonable image of god, and it pleases them then it is their own personal truth.

External factors too will be insignificant; these personal perceptions of what god is is dependent from person to person and will most likely stay that way no matter how many times we argue. The problem arises when they try to impose their personal brand of god to everyone else. (Now we know where those bombs are coming from).


How their god is formed and how many personal gods are there.


Every person has this unique personality and this is thanks to the different experiences that we encounter every single day of our ephemeral lives. Everyone has some sort of weakness, some soft spot, a blind side and whatnot; and because of this, everyone will have a different perception of what a "fatherly figure" would be like.

This was evident to the activity we had on our religious studies class, the activity was: "to describe, what god for you is". And here's a sample list:

What god for him is -- what he is.
A kind father -- Someone who have a deceased father.
Someone who lifts him up -- An emo kid who's always depressed.
His best friend -- one of the friendliest people I know.
Mentor -- school validectorian.
Forgiving being -- mischievous guy.

The list goes on.
The existence of god isn't proved in any way, he isn't showing himself or explicitly told everyone what he is like; even the christians say that he is infinite, therefore, it is but natural for them to have different perceptions of god.

(Warning, crappy example)
Think of 3 bald guys walking about.
Depending on your attitude and experiences, you'll have different perceptions on what these guys are, what they're doing, and the reason for the bald-ness.

Perhaps a "I think these guys are punks" for the bullied persons; and a "I think these guys are just doing it for fun" for someone with a happy go lucky attitude". And perhaps, you might be thinking that one is a cancer patient, and the other two is his best friends; shaved their hair off so that their friend with the cancer won't be made fun off that much -- if you are the sentimental type.

The possibilities with that example alone is almost limitless.

Now imagine if I ask you to think of a being; what happens then?

To be Continued.

Personal Deity: The Proof.

I had thought of this for a while now, I sometimes ask myself why theists seem to be too self-centered on their supernatural beliefs; what I mean to say is that, if something good happens to them and bad to others, they say that, "their god has favored them for this and that and other preconceived ideas (which are obviously not based on anything)", if otherwise, they just say "it is the will of god, or he is testing me"; but when asked, "what made you say so?", the common answer is, "I just do", or they just ignore you.

That made me wonder, why are these theists too full of themselves, and they act as if they know what their god is thinking or doing; if god is infinite and we are finite -- if they are true -- why, then, do they know what their god is thinking? That doesn't connect at all. This made me think of the possibility that their god is governed by their own feelings, that they themselves are their own gods.


I have to test this though, I don't want to base my arguments on nothing (as what those theists do), so I talked to a number of theists, specifically christians, regarding this matter. Here's the gist:

Me: What made you think that there's a god?
Christian: The bible
Me: But the one's who wrote the bible are...
Christian: Yes, humans, BUT! (proudly), they were guided by god!

Me: [Orly], So.. basically, god wrote the bible?
Christian:[Yarly], Yes.
Me: Ah, so god wrote the bible, telling that he is real. Don't you find that stupid?
Christian: ... say what you want, I FEEL that god is real, for me, that is the truth.
 Me: So, you are basing your arguments on  your feelings?
Christian:Yes, I can't explain it to you using logic, because I can't, like all other christians, present an evidence that god is real.

Me: (WTF, you forgot about the bible thing) Oh, so you mean to say, that because you think that it is, it is.
Christian:Yes.
Me: I don't think that god exists, does that make me right?
Christian: We don't know who's right or not.

Me: (You just said it!) So, for some, he exists, for some, he doesn't?
Christian:Yes.
Me: So a universal god does not exist.
Christian: No, a universal god does exist.
Me: But, according to your logic, if I "feel" something, that makes it true for me!
Christian:Yes.
Me: That means, god is not universally existent.
Christian: God does exist, for me personally.

So there you have it, that's basically the things that go through a typical conversation with a christian.

God, then, exists only in the minds of those who believe in him, he's on a personal basis. (for some)

If god then, is only on a personal basis, why do they still force the idea that god "literally" exists? What is the reason for them to still cling on that idea?

To be continued.



DISCLAIMER:
The conversation above does not happen 100% of the time, but it's very common. So meh.

We have to jail the pope!

Before anything else, let me point out that I've never been in a good shape to do a blog post lately; I promise to upload one this week. >_>


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Michael Jacob's: If something wrong happened theories.

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Christianity, and most religions thank their God (or whatever their supernatural being is called) for whatever something good happened in their lives. Like if you win the lottery, you’re accepted to your favorite college, and even with the simplest things like, just eating together with your family, passing the test, etc. I mean it’s universal. This is the reason why many people stick with their religion. With all these good things that they’re receiving, It’s just God’s showing how He love them. They will pray, worship, go to church, have a family gathering, in the name of their God.

Now what if something bad happened? How do these believers deal with it? How do they reason out? Well, One thing’s for sure. Their reasoning is not unanimous. I’ve debated many of these believers and they have different answers. Some believers also will shift to one theory to another if they can’t support their first theory. So anyway, what are these theories exactly?

The “Satan did it” theory. 

This must be really logical right? God is good so he’s for good things, and Satan for the bad things. An example on this is when you hear the preachers saying, “Don’t be tempted! Don’t let Satan win over you!”.

But one major flaw of this theory is that why can Satan do evil things to people? As far as I know, God put Satan in hell and to STAY in hell. Even if God made Satan the ruler in hell that doesn’t mean that he can go to earth and spread evil, can he? But if you support this theory you obviously think that he can go to earth and spread evil. But why is God allowing him to? The argument that God can’t control Satan seems to be invalid because, he had made him from a gorgeous angel with wings, to an ugly creature with horns and tails. So if God can do that, God can also control him.

So this first one is wrong for me. Of course I said “for me” as those believers might be offended. But I’ve already offended you, so what the heck. You offend me just by believing anyway. (1)

The “God is testing us” theory.

Your aunt died. And then your mother told you, “we will get over this. God is just testing our faith.” In this theory the usual scenario involves a temporary suffering, which often holds a uncertain future thus explaining the hope for a better one. Often this theory is followed with “God will never let us down,” or “You have no idea what God’s reward for you.” things like that.

This must be true for an average family, but clearly is not for most people living in the streets, or in a very poor community. You will also realize the incredible amount of unfairness on this theory, as God seems to be testing some people more than others. And there’s no such thing as an unfair God, is there? So this one, is also false.

The “We are responsible” theory.

This must be the believers most famous answer, but this theory is also easiest one to debunk. So God is the one responsible for the good things that happened into our lives, but when it comes to bad things, we are the one responsible. I don’t know to believers on how does that sound to them but for me it’s hilarious.

I don’t know, maybe the problem is that they don’t realize it is hilarious. Admit it believers. When you pass a test for example, you thank God right? But when you failed it, you will say, “Oh it’s my fault, I should have reviewed more.”

So I think this also is false. Why do you think we are the one’s responsible for the bad things happening to us? Because God didn’t helped us? He went hiatus for us a bit to serve another customer? I don’t think so.

The “God has a plan” theory.

This is also a famous theory. If something bad happened, “God has made a plan for you, don’t worry.” Of course the supporters of this theory couldn’t possibly promise a better future on whoever they’re telling it to, because the main idea of their theory is that, “If you’re suffering, maybe that’s what God had plan for you.”

And often that plan is unknown. I am annoyed as they say it too confident, but if you ask them, “So what is that plan?” then they’ll say, “I don’t know”. Then you’ll say, “then how did you know that there is a plan?” then they will say, “I just know.”

So annoying.

Anyway, if God had plans for all of us in our lives, well, it is believable for someone who died recognized as a hero, but for a person who died as a suicide bomber? Is that really God’s plan for him? Does having your body parts fly into the air separately a God’s plan? I don’t think so! And obviously that person who killed himself will not go to heaven, will he?

Isn’t that, my friends, a very lousy plan? And there is no lousy planner God, is there? This is also false.

The “We will be rewarded” theory.

I’m sure this argument is included in the bible, where the most suffered ones are the ones who will be going straight to heaven. There’s a story, I don’t know what’s the title, where someone approached Jesus, and said, “Jesus! I donated my money to the poor, will I be going to heaven now?” Then Jesus replied, “donate all your money until your poor, then you will be in heaven.”

So the basic idea of this theory is that God is not here to answer our prayers. We are here to serve him. So he’s not giving you anything during your time here! Why would he! Even if you’re all crippled, poor, always hungry and everything bad is happening in your life, as long as you serve the almighty Lord, you will go to heaven.

The major problem for this one is that why would God let something bad happen to us? And why would we want to serve Him? we haven’t seen Him, He doesn’t care for us, and promised us a unproven afterlife?

What is in there in heaven anyway? Clouds? half naked attractive angels with wings? It must be fun but I’m sure you can’t have sex with all of them as you need to be married first with one of the angels. And I’m sure divorce is not allowed there. What else is in there? Are there computers? Are they fast? are all of those dead engineers and developers can create computers? How about school? Is there school in heaven? Those dead aborted babies needed school! Oh wait, they don’t need to as they’re going to stay babies forever right? I pity those people who died old. They’re never going to be young again, or will they? Can they chose what age will they want to stay permanent? Or can they change their appearance? can they look like a famous superstar?

Yeah right. This is also false. I rather believe that this is my last life on earth, and I will never be stuck with a giant temperamental God who says He loves all of us but still sends bad people to hell instead of teaching them. that LIAR!

Wrap up

So, believers? What do you believe if something bad happened to you? If you have other theories, feel free to comment. Oh I’m sure you don’t call it a “theory”. You call it “THE TRUTH!”

An Open Letter to Religious People: You are Idiots and I Hate You

***** This is not my blog, I don't know who gets the rights too, if you are the original owner, then please contact me.

Before you go and get the wrong idea, this is NOT about why religion is bad, or why it is wrong. Of course religion is bad, and of course religion is wrong. But this is so blindingly obvious that it no longer needs to be said.
Instead, this is a direct attack on you, the religious person. The argument? That your failure to reject religion indicates that you are colossally irredeemably stupid.

Religion is fundamentally flawed in a staggering variety of ways, to the point that a curious child can bring down the entire framework of baloney with an innocent question.
Such questions include

*Why is there evil?

*Who made god?

*Why should I trust you after that santa claus thing?

But you didn’t ask those questions, did you? Or if you did, you accepted the pathetic rationalizations that where offered without further contemplation.
perhaps you where even afraid to ask, or even to think about it.
Your comforting little worldview matter more to you then the truth.

But can this critical failure really be blamed on fear of the consequences of religion being wrong? Is a godless world that terrible to contemplate?
The idea that santa claus isn’t real is also unpleasant, and this proves a deterrent to disbelief. But not a significant one.

God doesn’t even bring people presents. In fact, in most religions he is actually a real jerk. Plagues and laws and smiting and eternal torture. Is this really a so attractive an idea that people can’t let it go?

Perhaps disinterest is the only real problem. After all, if a man can’t read greek, that doesn’t make him stupid. It simply means he doesn’t care to learn greek.
But can really a disinterest in the fundamental nature of reality really be justified in such a way? maybe so. After all, it makes little difference in day to day living if god is really up there or not.

And yet, should not the fact that god’s existence has no major consequence itself raise a red flag?

The idea that a being with immense powers exist, but never tampers with the world in a noticeable way is an absurdly childish hypothetical scenario. it’s “I’m not touching you” on a cosmic scale.

Granted, we used to see a lot more evidence of god’s tampering then we do today. Lightning, disease, floods, butterflies and the sun.
But even then, a bunch of inexplicable things hardly adds up to a magical being who you can’t see.
And of course all this “evidence” wilted and died with sufficient rational inquiry. The sun and stars turned out to be big nuclear furnaces, diseases and butterflies are now well understood, and lightning is just an electrical discharge.

Indeed, from a leopards spots to pregnancy to the shape of the earth, religions has been proved wrong, wrong, wrong.
It would take an IDIOT not to see a pattern in this. And that’s exactly what you are.

The icing on this pathetic cake is that you realize that all OTHER religions are wrong, you just have a blind spot towards your own.
Perhaps you have a vague awareness that religion is retarded, but you never really give it up because your thoughts are to disorganized to deal with it.
If this is the case, and your mind is a dusty closet full of odds and ends, motivational phrases and vacation photos, I have nothing but contempt for you.

I refuse to respect religious beliefs, and I refuse to respect the people who hold them. Your willfull ignorance is inexcusable and it disgust me.

Root of All Evil - Episode 1

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An Introduction: A Personal Deity.

I want to tease my readers with a blog that I have in mind. This is just an introduction.

I've been an atheist for years now; and I have heard christians blabber all day about their god, and I found something funny; their perceptions on who and what god is is quite different. The funnier part is that, when I get to have a debate with them and their on the losing side, they try to turn the table by acting on the notion that god is a personal deity, that they can't explain why, how, etc, and just say that "I just do, along with all other christians".

If god then, is something personal; this means that god is created in and by your mind alone and that what he is and isn't depends solely in what you think he is. This leads me to conclude, then, that you yourself is god. That  you yourself is a master of your own life for you yourself invented god. Kudos to yourself for creating such a wonderful invention.

 

The Belief System

Men are born to do their best to give a reason for everything, not putting in mind whether or not it conforms to logic or the facts. Men are born to be afraid of the unknown, and to follow where they think is safe.

From that line alone, you will know that if you deprive man from an explanation, he will resort to theories that doesn't conform to reason; just for the sake of satisfying their need for an explanation. A day ago, I watched the movie Agora, which speaks about those christians whom I despise most. Their argument was that:

If the earth was round, why don't the people in the bottom part fall off? If it is moving, why are we not affected?

Well, we can't blame them, they lacked the knowledge; they know not a thing about the gravity, much more the advanced laws of physics. Why then we as civilized men, still hold to their argument? The empirical data that we have gathered and learned obviously contradicts with their arguments, which follows that the theory that they made out of that argument is false -- in other words, god is dis-proven.

The second belief system that I'm going to talk to you about is the part where men are too afraid to face what is not known to them and they do their best to stick to what is good. The belief system of christianity basically works like this; men are too afraid to live a life without their 'fatherly-omnipotent-they-say-being'; men can't do about their problems without seeking advice from a silent being; men can't withstand problems too great for them; so they resort to their only possible defense, religion.

The fact that man can't fully explain everything doesn't logically lead us that a supernatural being does exist, it just means that we lack information; if, then, that our stupidity is our basis for god, god may be whimsical then?

A christian may be thinking this line while reading this: "But our feelings, you can't understand it". Are you telling me, then, that our feelings are your basis for your argument; if so, then what if I'll tell you that god is nothing but a product of stupid-man's ideas, does that make me any more correct than you are?

The reason why we don't fear hell.

To all the deists out there. :)

Lawrence Krauss - A Universe From Nothing

This is with regard to my previous topic; I hope you enjoy.

And oh, God is going to be screwed.

Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion

On Human Frailty

     The early people -- the poeple where religion originated -- lacked the evidences needed to answer the primitive questions; they lacked not just in technological advancement, but also in the scientific advancement, this in turn led them to the belief that a magic is governing the world, it is their only hope in answering the questions that haunt them. This I can tolerate, as frail humans as we are, we fear something that we don't know of.

      After years of scientific and technological advancements, we have learned about the big-bang, about our very old ancestral prokaryotes and how they came to be, about bacteria that causes illness, about the solar system and the stars, and about the evolution of species including us humans, we are at the pinnacle of evolution and the evidences and ideas that we have gathered are adequate enough for us to answer these primitive questions that seemed astronomical before. Why, still, do we have to hold on the a fatherly figure? Why must we not try to move on and, just like what evolution does and told us, remove the useless stuff that'll slow us down? Why must man not try to rely on himself and his logic or reason, given that we have advanced brain capable of reasoning.

     I have met many a friend that I've helped open his mind to the world of freethinking -- and it had wondrous effects, but I noticed, after a terrible experience or two, they suddenly morph back to their old religious status, and worship god again, seeking for his divine intervention -- which never comes. I pity those who can't stand for their own, those who still hold on to a heavenly figure, and to worsen that, they dare not question that belief for the fear of eternal punishment.

"Why must learned man believe the uneducated?"

     We need to let go of the supernatural explanation on how we humans came to be, the evolution of man is there to explain this; and where humans came from? The early prokaryotes - who, mind you, can come out from inorganic materials that existed in the early earth, even until now. Why still trust the bible, who's written by illogical men who don't even understand what evolution is? Why say that god created the universe? Are you afraid to say that "science hasn't fully answered that yet? (but honestly, Lawrence Krauss pawned this topic, search for it in google- youtube, "a universe from nothing".)" Must there be an answer to everything? Can't we not wait for hard evidences before concluding something superficial as god? Must men resort to illogical arguments, just to assure him that something, someone out there has some sort of plan for us?

I ask you, then, what if one day, god disappears? Will you lose your sanity?

All I ask of you is to, for once, think.

 I am one of those atheists who love to go to chat rooms and try to have a decent debate with religious people. What frustrates me is that: every time I try to open up a conversation on the said topic, all those religious fundies do is dodge the question or arguments that I throw and shove their religion to my throat, and to add the cherry on the stupid icing, all they say are logical nonsense.

                Have you heard a theist on their argument why god may be real? Most of the time, they don’t bother to, or if they do, it’s just the simple ‘because the bible this and that’. Don’t they know that quoting the bible as grounds for your argument is a fallacy? Firstly, the bible may not be authentic; sure, it claims that it is legitimate but that doesn’t prove anything. Secondly, bible-god-bible argument is a fallacy (almost) all theists commit. The fallacy is so common that it even has a name! It’s called the argument in circles fallacy: which is a fallacy that happens if a premise is said to be true because it is backed up by another premise – even though that supporting premise isn’t even proven true. Bible said that god is real; god wrote the bible who says he is real.

                Have you had a theist who questions you about your moral system, something like, “where do you get your morals from?” This is a signal, and it’s telling us atheists that the Christian has no other arguments up his sleeve. I’d like to school theists about the human morality. Unlike Christians, who get their morals from 10 laws, atheists’ are based on logic, a dose of pity, a touch of personal biases, the society and our being human. Society has told us what god from bad is, therefore, whether you like it or not, man is imbued by set of moral values which he acquired from society. Psychologists say that we got our morals from painful experiences ad that we don’t want that to happen to others, sorry to say, but, if one day, god is really disproven, theists lose their moral foundations and may turn to the worst of people, or simply lose their sanity. It’s a double edged sword.

                On some occasions, I challenge those theists, I tell them my argument that god-bible is a fallacy, and I usually get two answers. Let’s talk about the first one: my apologies, but I think I made a mistake in labeling this as an “answer”, the truth is, and they don’t. Theists dodge my argument so well, that if they are as good in doing so with a bullet, they wouldn’t die in a battlefield. Anyhow, the worst part of this is that, after those theists stupidly and unartfully dodges; they come back at you, disregard your arguments, and once again, shove their religion at you.

                The second answer is the use of another fallacy: appeal to emotions, or red herring. Let me further break this apart. The first segment is the part where those theists answer something like this: “it is about the feelings of the people, we felt god, that’s why we believe that he is real”. Emotions do not prove anything; I did not feel god in any way possible, does that prove his inexistence? As a teenager, have you heard the line: “he’s the one”? Usually, he isn’t. Ha ha. The other segment is that, they tell you that god is real backed up by useless arguments packed with fallacies so obvious that only a monkey can’t see – that’s what they are, by the way. The other version for this is that, they use a tactic called burden of proof; this is where those fundies challenge you to disprove god. This isn’t an obvious fallacy but it doesn’t mean that it isn’t; it is a fallacy in a sense that, they are the ones who should give the proof because they are on the affirmative side. You guys can do research about this one.

The next subtopic that I’m going to talk is confirmation bias. This is the part where those real-life-which-is-supposedly-true miracles happen; where cancers are cured, successful operations happen, crying statues and holey marks on trees exist. Let’s just focus on the cured cancer part; I do think that this would suffice. Have you heard a theist tell you about a person who has been cured because they prayed? I ask you this, then, how many people are there in the world that has cancer, and among these individuals, how many have a theist family who sought for God’s holey miracles, and to sort them further, how many did die? After answering those questions, you’ll hopefully understand something that there are a lot of deaths due to cancer that were neglected and only the one who survived is given focus, and to worsten this, they call this the miracle of god! What makes that one person different from the other? What makes that one guy so special? None! Everything happened by chance and chance alone! If that guy is special, your god then is as biased as you are.

“It is not our duty to question God, as mortals.” Who said so; if we don’t our brain will become that of a dog’s. If you Christians think this way, then by all means do so, but don’t think that, your stupidity will be respected in the atheist community.

All we ask of you is to, just for once, think, and to not act as to what a dog would.

A Letter from an Atheist: Decoded

Remember my post about a letter from an atheist? There's a secret meaning behind it, just like what I said, here it is.

There are many kind hearted people, some are educated some aren’t, or they do not care they are living with rational people. Belief in a great many mysteries and things is good but now that I try to think about it, oftentimes I feel most enlightened overall. Of course to them (rationalists) I become foolish and irrational for believing and for being defensive of religion. When I began it (faith), it comes as revelations to me in matters of hopes concerning the true religion. We ask why believe it? Must you ask religion to not be at all special? Of course one must be very polite to likely impart a reason since, this is faith. Perhaps because non-believers think most believing people, of course including us Bible readers, were not well taught in logic, and that we indoctrinated and convinced as many innocent children we’d found. To believe and not ask any question about the matters of God, of our heavenly faith. You and I are brothers. Can’t religion triumph? Prevent it not. Myself included, we’re from this moment questioning not faith, my personal revelations, beliefs, nor God. Every moment is time well spent, I think, to reflect on God, on his mercy. My skepticism’s now past. Returning to religious status, my convictions have changed. I now solemnly arrive to serve at God’s feet. The one true conclusion is such that of mine. A loving, forgiving, personal, and merciful God the almighty, is certainly not absurd.

Why need god?

     I have been an atheist since I was 14 years old, 4 years ago; since then, I learned how to stand on my own, be strong, and to not rely o any magical being... everything was, and still is, fine, I did not experience any superficial sufferings nor punishments and I lived my life in a very logical and moral way with no experiences of religious irrelevance. So I asked, what is there in god that man can't let go? If a life without god is just as contenting, less the time-consuming religious acts, why the need for an omnipotent being then? If man can still live his life in a moral way without the guidance of the 10 commandments, why still hold onto the notion that god exists?

     A few months ago, fate jokingly answered me. I suffered a vast amount of metaphysical pain, which I can't overcome easily, and to top that, I can't contact any of my friends whom I feel comfortable with in sharing my problems. After this, I realized that: if I were a religious guy, I would've had a fatherly figure who I can console my problems to.

     After that incident, I finally got my answer. People need god in order for them to have a meaning in their lives, so that they won't be haunted by the grim reality of the cosmos -- that we came from nothing, and we don't know where we are headed to or what we're here for, and that our mere existence came from pure chance, no reason, no mission in life, no destination. That we are all going to die and who-knows-where we're going to and we don't know what will happen then. That all our efforts will just go to waste, as if nothing really happened.

"We live to live."

An open letter to religious people: you are idiots and I hate you.

***Note: I got this from a comic strip, don't shoot me for this, but I second this, honestly.

Before you go and get the wrong idea, this is NOT about why religion is bad, or why it is wrong. Of course religion is bad, and of course religion is wrong. But this is so blindingly obvious that it no longer needs to be said.
Instead, this is a direct attack on you, the religious person. The argument? That your failure to reject religion indicates that you are colossally irredeemably stupid.

Religion is fundamentally flawed in a staggering variety of ways, to the point that a curious child can bring down the entire framework of baloney with an innocent question.
Such questions include

*Why is there evil?

*Who made god?

*Why should I trust you after that santa claus thing?

But you didn't ask those questions, did you? Or if you did, you accepted the pathetic rationalizations that where offered without further contemplation.
perhaps you where even afraid to ask, or even to think about it.
Your comforting little worldview matter more to you then the truth.

But can this critical failure really be blamed on fear of the consequences of religion being wrong? Is a godless world that terrible to contemplate?
The idea that santa claus isn't real is also unpleasant, and this proves a deterrent to disbelief. But not a significant one.

God doesn't even bring people presents. In fact, in most religions he is actually a real jerk. Plagues and laws and smiting and eternal torture. Is this really a so attractive an idea that people can't let it go?

Perhaps disinterest is the only real problem. After all, if a man can't read greek, that doesn't make him stupid. It simply means he doesn't care to learn greek.
But can really a disinterest in the fundamental nature of reality really be justified in such a way? maybe so. After all, it makes little difference in day to day living if god is really up there or not.

And yet, should not the fact that god's existence has no major consequence itself raise a red flag?

The idea that a being with immense powers exist, but never tampers with the world in a noticeable way is an absurdly childish hypothetical scenario. it's "I'm not touching you" on a cosmic scale.

Granted, we used to see a lot more evidence of god's tampering then we do today. Lightning, disease, floods, butterflies and the sun.
But even then, a bunch of inexplicable things hardly adds up to a magical being who you can't see.
And of course all this "evidence" wilted and died with sufficient rational inquiry. The sun and stars turned out to be big nuclear furnaces, diseases and butterflies are now well understood, and lightning is just an electrical discharge.

Indeed, from a leopards spots to pregnancy to the shape of the earth, religions has been proved wrong, wrong, wrong.
It would take an IDIOT not to see a pattern in this. And that's exactly what you are.

The icing on this pathetic cake is that you realize that all OTHER religions are wrong, you just have a blind spot towards your own.
Perhaps you have a vague awareness that religion is retarded, but you never really give it up because your thoughts are to disorganized to deal with it.
If this is the case, and your mind is a dusty closet full of odds and ends, motivational phrases and vacation photos, I have nothing but contempt for you.

I refuse to respect religious beliefs, and I refuse to respect the people who hold them. Your willfull ignorance is inexcusable and it disgust me.

:) Enjoy flaming, christians.

A Letter from an Atheist

Here is a letter that a colleague wrote:

There are many kind hearted people, some are educated some aren’t, or they do not care they are living with rational people. Belief in a great many mysteries and things is good but now that I try to think about it, oftentimes I feel most enlightened overall. Of course to them (rationalists) I become foolish and irrational for believing and for being defensive of religion. When I began it (faith), it comes as revelations to me in matters of hopes concerning the true religion. We ask why believe it? Must you ask religion to not be at all special? Of course one must be very polite to likely impart a reason since, this is faith. Perhaps because non-believers think most believing people, of course including us Bible readers, were not well taught in logic, and that we indoctrinated and convinced as many innocent children we’d found. To believe and not ask any question about the matters of God, of our heavenly faith. You and I are brothers. Can’t religion triumph? Prevent it not. Myself included, we’re from this moment questioning not faith, my personal revelations, beliefs, nor God. Every moment is time well spent, I think, to reflect on God, on his mercy. My skepticism’s now past. Returning to religious status, my convictions have changed. I now solemnly arrive to serve at God’s feet. The one true conclusion is such that of mine. A loving, forgiving, personal, and merciful God the almighty, is certainly not absurd.

I hope you guys can find the hidden meaning behind that letter, it's written masterfully.

If you can't figure it out, send me an email: paulotaku@gmail.com -- and please, don't assume. :)

God is a Fallacy

  Christians and even us atheists on our christian days, found out about the possible existence of God through our parents; they were the first people who taught us about God, and they used a book as a guide, or tool, in telling us who God is - that book is the bible. What happens if the very book, that is the foundation of the possible-existence of God, is nothing but a lie. If so, we can say goodbye to christianity.

    The bible said that god is real, we know; and we do know that the author of the bible are mere humans which are said to be instructed by god. This argument is a type of fallacy called 'argument in circles'. I was confused after realizing this, so I told some christians about this, and its either they dodge the question skillfully or shove their religion in my throat - fundies.

Anyhow, I was startled by this one answer that I got from my cousin, she told me that the feelings that were felt by us humans are the reason why they can tell that God is real; this is red herring, an appeal to ones feelings or emotions. Feelings doesn't prove God's existence. Honestly, christians, you equate everything that happens to your life into a 'miracle-of-God' or work-of-God'.