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So it is blasphemous to “insult” an imaginary being that doesn’t exist, but it isn’t blasphemous to attack science, rationality, and the real world?
atheism
Harder than the common cold
If religion was purely a matter of individual private belief it could be just dumped in with all the other irrational thought patterns that so bedevil Homo sapiens (and presumably sapiens ancestors, though the other apes seem to be purely rational), a curiosity for psychological investigation perhaps. The problem is that one essential part of
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No book contract
If someone claimed that they, or their child, had been through a near death experience, in which they travelled to the real Disneyland on the moon, and there they met Mickey and Donald who were real live animals who could speak, then they would be recognised as suffering from delusions and they would be treated
Hubris
How messed up would your mind have to be to write a book telling other people how to live their lives?
Not restful
If Sunday is the day of rest why do so many people spend it talking to an imaginary friend, worrying about an imaginary afterlife, and whipping themselves into a frenzy thinking of someone, somewhere, is having fun?
Allons enfants
Throughout history, and over most of the world, societies have been divided into left and right, poor and rich, workers and bosses, globalists and nationalists, humanists and racists, atheists and the religious, thinkers and followers, socialists and fascists. The important thing for all of us is to decide early what side we are on.
And we are well on our way
All over the universe, planets capable of supporting life will have evolved intelligent organisms. All over the universe those organisms will have invented systems of living that enable a small number of them to gain a very large share of the resources of the planet. All over the universe those systems will develop patterns of
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Not Fascism. Not Communism.
The most effective system ever devised for controlling people for the purposes of the ruling class in a society is religion.
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If you didn’t already
Seeing the number of views on all the click-bait conspiracy theory YouTube videos would make you despair of the human race.
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Therefore I am
To say “I am an atheist” is to say no more, and no less, than “I am a sentient human being”.