A collection of essays and rants, inspired and taken from a series that I have been writing for several years concerning this subject. A stirring account of how certain issues are poisoned by organized religions and why we as a society would be much...
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"Everything gets along better without God." - Charlie
Could you imagine a world without God?
I can. I live in one everyday; I like to call that world Earth.
I'm not taking about the kind of fake reality you see on television but rather the real world that we all inhabit. Many people have tried to attack my atheism by calling it a belief and that I'm required to have faith in order to hold onto the idea that there is no God. Their idea is completely ridiculous. Atheism is rejection all things that require faith. I do not think there is no god; I conclude there is no god based on the evidence that has been presented so far, which is nothing.
I have no problem concluding that theories such as evolution are the truth, because there is a lot of evidence to back up its claims. I don't walk off a cliff because I believe in the theory of gravity, I choose not to walk off that cliff because know that gravity exists and that walking off that cliff will result in my death after I fall from it. There is also the theory that the earth orbits the sun. Guess who also didn't agree with that theory and was proven wrong? Are we finally seeing a pattern here?
But I digress; let's get back to the subject at hand, that being a world without God. Could you imagine living in such a world? A place where people do not riot simply because a cartoon in the paper mocked their imaginary friend? A place where people do not judge on another based on fables they were not even around to see for themselves? Such a place does exist, and many Atheists live in that world today. Numbers state that the amount of non-believers living in the world today is climbing steadily. There are even some nations in Europe where non-believers are the majority rather than the minority. Europe in general is become more atheist by the year, with numbers in most nations climbing at a rapid pace. More and more people are walking away from religion and seeing the world for what it really is; a place that is not ruled by a higher being of any kind.
How would you feel of people were judged by their actions, the way they treated other people rather than what pew they knelt before? An end of religion to many means an end to generations of racism, homophobia and even sexism that has been pushed upon people and societies by religious dogma. Wouldn't it nice to live in a world were nothing was sacred and people could post cartoons write a book without having to worry about riots or a fatwa being put on their head. I sure think it would be and we can if most of us learn that religion isn't something that should be organized, it should be private and between a single person and his/her faith. If everyone kept their beliefs to themselves and didn't push them into our schools or our governments, there's a chance the world would be a much better place. I find it mildly amusing that people feel the need to push their religion as far as they can when their own holy books clearly state that they are not supposed to take their alleged God's law into his/her/their own hands. God in countless religions states that he will take care of things when it's all said and done. That judgement belongs to him and him alone. Yet people refuse to let the mystic police do their thing and continuously take the law into their own hands and constant commit acts of religious vigilantism. Not only is organized religion a disturbing annoyance to those who don't want to partake in it, it's a disturbing breach of their own almighty being's regulations.
