I remember as a little boy of 10-or 12-years-old I watched a movie on the predictions of Nostradamus. I did not leave the theater awed by his predictions, they had no impact on me as to the possibility of this being true. This is the same for me as I watched with boredom the serials of Buck Rodgers and his fake looking rocket ship sputtering sparks and puffs of smoke from the rear of his rocket spaceship.� Now if at this time I were to see a real rocket ship and the power of rocket engines that would have made an impression on me as it still does, today.I feel I have a good sense of reality.� I know what might be possible and what is impossible such as an invisible God, and this is my credo. I don't believe in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy or the Easter Bunny that lays eggs. Nor do I believe in the flying saucers that are allegedly flitting about. And I sure don't believe anyone who is deluded enough to claim they have been taken aboard a flying saucer to have their anus probed. I don't believe in psychics, astrologers, ghosts, holy or otherwise.
I don't believe people have an invisible something called a soul except in their own imagination, and that goes for a God becoming a man or a man becoming a God. I don't believe in God of the Jewish, Christian or Moslem variety either. Those concepts too exist only in the believers' imagination. I don't believe in little green, gray or any other color men or women visiting from outer space.�
I don't believe that an organized groups of Satan worshipers exist except in the imaginations of their proponents. Yes, I do believe that individuals like the psychopath Ramirez could act out this pathology. I don't believe as I once did in multiple personality disorders. I now see it as an iatrogenic phenomenon induced by psychotherapists with an over-active imagination on unsuspecting clients.
I don't believe in the reality of Big Foot, Little Foot or the Lochness monster. I don't believe in anything that is supernatural or paranormal and I sure don't respect any psychotherapist that does. I don't believe in the devil, Satan or any other anthropomorphic idea of evil. And I sure don't believe in his abode that is supposed to be very hot. I don't believe in the holiness or sacredness of the bibles both new and old, other than a collection of primitive fables and folklore that has evolved since recorded history. I have no respect for self-exalted people like ministers, priests, rabbis, nuns, imams or ayatollahs wanting authoritarian control over people's minds .
This group of self exalted people never figured out what this little girl did, "then religion," said Minerva, "is a snare and delusion because it has led people to look outside themselves for help when in truth salvation is to be found nowhere but within themselves."
� �Pilgrims Progress. From The Complete Secularist
by Thomas S. Vernon, Professor of PhilosophyNewton Joseph, Ph.D.
Born Again Atheist
By William Edelin