Honorary Knight Midget
"The only way to defend the West is to attack the mind!"
Faith, in the religious sense, means to place one's trust in an idea irrespective of how little evidence there is to support it. It is to suppress that part of the brain which filters fact from fiction, and to choose fiction because it feels nicer.
Faith means to sublimate or surrender that quality which separates civilised man from primitive savage. It is to accept as truth that which attempts to explain the inexplicable in terms which can be digested by the non-critical and superstitious side of the brain.
The greater the number of people who have faith in a particular fiction the better, because each person feeds off, and in turn reinforces, the faith of the others. Therefore if a thousand people believe the same lie it has more credence�than if only twenty people believe it. Eventually it becomes absorbed into the bloodstream of a culture and anyone who challenges the lie becomes "the enemy". That's when laws are introduced to protect and preserve the lie.
But when a million people believe the same lie they split into factions, each interpreting the lie differently as suits their individual needs. And when that happens the first rays of light begin to dawn; that's when the lie begins to crumble.
It is an indisputable fact � painful though it might be to some � that irrespective of how many people believe a lie, they cannot alter the past and convert the lie into truth. Inevitably then, as each faction denounces the other, the lie falls into disrepute and the stunning stupidity of it all becomes apparent. That's when men get busy fabricating new, alternative lies.
MY AWAKENING
At a place called Aberfan in Wales, a mountain of coal slag moved, became a landslide, and buried the local school. One hundred and sixteen children, some as young as seven, died.
As a young Boy Scout I had attended Holy Trinity Church. I remembered the vicar preaching a sermon about god being "omnipotent". That was a new word to me but I learned that it meant "all powerful" - capable of anything. After the Welsh
disaster I approached that same vicar and asked him why god had allowed the Aberfan children to die. The vicar said, "It's not for us to question the ways of the Lord, my son," and he continued busying himself arranging silver chalices and things.
I came away thinking, "You don't know, do you! You can't answer my question." So I was left with this puzzle - "If god is all powerful, capable of anything, how come he did nothing while that mountain of coal slag shifted?" He could have diverted it. He could have stopped it altogether. Or if he wasn't quite "omnipotent" he could at least have delayed it a few hours till school was
over. But he did nothing. He sat on his bum in heaven listening to the terrified screams of the little children, watching them suffocate and die.
And I thought, "No father, no matter how hateful, could allow that to happen. So perhaps there is no god after all." That concept was infinitely more palatable than the thought that god did exist but that he was a hateful, uncaring monster.
You see, christians, you can't have it both ways. It is either the one thing, or the other. If you insist that god does exist and that he is omnipotent then you have to accept the fact that he is a hateful, uncaring monster. Because would a caring father stand by doing nothing while so much as one of his children suffers? Please do think about it.
To say that I became an atheist on that day would be an exaggeration. Let's say, I became a serious doubter. But that day in 1966 was a turning point in my life. So for me, the year 2001 AD in christian terms, is the year 35 SA (Since Awakening) in my terms.
Later in life I started reading the bible and I discovered that the thing worshipped by the masses as a god � a "merciful father" � is in fact a monstrous abomination fabricated in the minds of savages. I learned that not only did god stand by doing nothing while children suffered, but he revelled in their suffering! He drowned children, he burned children, he ordered his assassins to murder children, he instructed rapists to capture pre-pubescent females and trade them as slaves. He tortured children with horrible diseases and boasted of it. He starved them to death. He set wild beasts onto children to rip them apart, limb from tiny limb. He forced parents to eat their progeny, or to sacrifice them on bloody altars to glorify his wretched name.
I became an atheist. But I soon tired of intellectuals and their interminable waffling about the concepts of atheism. No one can disprove the existance of god, so why debate it laboriously and endlessly? Besides, you don't need Quantum Physics or a degree in Rocket Science to show that god has not only left the building, but that he never showed.
Darwin Copernicus
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FAITH
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Concerned bloke
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
Epicurus
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