If there is a God, he isn’t a God, but a more advanced being, and what if it’s all “for the lulz”?
This is my first post on Atheism. For me, I tend to stay away talking from politics and religion in any professional context, well, simply because there aren’t enough people in the world that know how to respectfully debate an issue (guilty of not being that way myself every now and then), and wind up generating a lot of hostility, but screw it, it’s my blog, and I’ll do what I want. If you disagree give me a good argument in comment and if you dribble some stupid nonsense you’ll just get the ban hammer.
There is not a God. None. There isn’t any evidence supporting it. The Bible isn’t evidence -> using it to prove what it preaches is circular logic (e.g. I wrote a book about topic A, thus A must be true because I wrote this here book about A). I am a militant Astheist, not in a sense that I use it as a religion, but in the sense that I am not bound to any dogmatic beliefs, not bound to any ritual or code, and am free to define the world based on reason and empathy. I am bound only to evidence.
With that said, if there was a “God”, it would be an alien. It would be a higher advanced organism. It would of caused the big bang and all that jazz, and would sit around with a beer in one hand and watching the show unfold. We are but parts of an amusement ride, all done “for the lulz”. This higher being gives little shit about us. In fact, it’s more than likely that this higher being doesn’t even exist: no evidence to date has provided clear and convincing non-subjective test data, repeatable in a non-biased venue, subject to serious peer review, etc. that could lead one to really think anything out there existed to be such.
To be honest though, that is what is so liberating about life as an Atheist. There is no higher power at work who is going to deliver justice onto me if I do something “bad”. My morals need not be defined by some ancient code, but rather by the experiences of going through life and discovering “hey I didn’t like how that event made me feel, so I won’t cause others to have to experience that event at my doing”. Everything becomes possible all of a sudden, but only at the hand of effort. There is no self-absolvement of one from any and all responsibility through prayer, just cause and effect through action, and inaction.
But there is a double edge sword at work here: In the course of debate, one must be able to open their mind and say “If you make a logical argument, I will change my opinion, but if I make a logical argument, you must change your opinion”. This sword is the double edged blade of “I may be wrong”. Religious folk may start rejoicing and praise “Oh, maybe there is hope in this poor disillusioned soul yet!”, but if so, well, you failed the game. You see, religion teaches people to NOT question their beliefs. To NOT substantiate their beliefs with evidence. To BLINDLY give faith without due course of the establishment of trust. Religion really does require blind faith because blindless cannot exist where there is logic. As a militant Atheist, I am willing to change my opinion if evidence came to pass, but militant religious folk cannot claim the same. CANNOT CLAIM THE SAME. There is a fundamental difference at work here, and my double edged sword beats your narrow minded axe.
A few examples. If Adam and Eve had two boys, how did the procreation chain continue? One of them “got a wife”, but where the heck did this chick come from? Anybody with two cents to their mind know right well what would have had to happen: we’re all the descents of incest. We’re screwed from the get-go.
Of course, we all know that’s not how it really happened. We all can understand that natural evolution allowed us to build up complicated life to the point that there was always a mechanism for reproduction, at one point only requiring self. It is more beneficial to the gene’s search state to have male/female distinction, since information is increased by combining different settings, as opposed to staying static. Oh wait, I’m getting into punctuated equilibrium (honk if you understand that (*honk*)).
Another example. Why is accepted that a senior citizen, with no prior ship-building experience, built an ark while in walking distance of all animals of the planet? Then repopulated the planet afterwords. Well, not only are we descendant now from incest not once but twice, but then we had a serious case of gene pool chlorine. All that information gained was lost. How quaint.
Last example. So a guy dies from being nailed to a piece of wood by a bunch of religious nutcases and then comes back after being dead and says “Oh hai guyz! BRAINS!”? You have to understand something about zombies: If you don’t disconnect the brain stem from the rest of the body, the thing keeps going. Perhaps they didn’t get the memo. Well, no wonder religious folk dribble. Zombie worshiping folk tend to do that.
So in summation, people who think there is a God are disillusioned, if there is one he’s nastier than /b/ (and that’s on a good day), and to demand my servitude or be forever punished, well, I’m not a sheep headed for slaughter. Religion was great back before we understood the world around us, but science is here now. Time to adapt to the new world.
Best of luck.
