Everytime I write a blog or an article about religion I always finish writing and say to myself “That’s it no more religious debates OK?” and yet somehow I always fail miserably…The relationship between myself and religion is very similar to relationship between heroin and Renton from trainspotting…”Just one more hit”…”Just one more hit”…But no matter how many times I board up my bedroom door and try to block it out from my life, somehow I always end ripping the boards off and coming back for more.
This rant has been inspired by an incredibly large amount of postings on YouTube recently. They are made by religious people, all of whom are either Christians or one of its many spin-offs, with the express intention of discrediting and demonising Atheism and Atheists. They’ve all got it into thier heads that Atheism is attempting to destroy religion in all its forms and force people to denounce thier Gods and live under an oppressive and brainwashing cult…which means that now they all know how Atheists have felt for the last few centuries…To these Christians et al I know that what I’m about to say will fall on deaf ears but please FUCKING GROW UP YOU ARSEHOLES!!!
Did i fall asleep and miss a couple of thousand years recently?
As far as I was aware the last time I checked I noticed that for as long as mankind has had civilisation the entire world has been pretty much been under the control of religion or religious leaders or religious law or religious doctrine and not once have I heard about any Atheist empires or countries describing themselves as “We are an Atheist Nation” and I can’t seem to remember ever hearing a news report with Kate Aidie shouting “Today the Atheist Army from Hawkingstine launched it’s carpet bombing attack on the small Agnostic nation of Darwinistan after it’s leaders announced that they all thought that ” Richard Dawkins is a great scientist but he does always come across as a bit of a smug bastard”…The war continues”….You know what I mean?
Now at this point the standard pavlovian response from theists is to bring up 1,2 or all 3 of the following historical figures; Chairman Mao, Pol Pott and Adolf Hitler. You’ll be told that these men were all Atheists and yet they each committed murder with a level of barbarism that is beyond belief
“How can atheists take the moral high ground when these 3 men committed unspeakable horrors and were also Atheists?”
Firstly I have no interest in taking the moral high ground on any issue, i’ve been up there before it’s cold, lonely and boring as fuck. Also, it is not an atheists obligation to take the high ground anyway, that’s the responsibility of you “God fearing folk”. You decided to call yourself a Christian and that automatically places a specific set of rules, standards and practices which you must adhere to. Atheists have no set moral code in place which they must follow…religiously. We can make up our own moral code and our own set of ethics and standards, we can set our own boundries of taste and decency and when we do something, good or bad, we don’t have to refer to a passage an ancient text in order to explain ourselves.
Was Chairman Mao a cunt? Of course he was, he killed 60 million people that’s usually enough of a qualification. However the one thing he wasn’t was an ideological hypocrite, he decided to commit his monsterous acts because it’s what he wanted to do and he could get away with it because, like religion, his followers were mindless fools.
But regardless of his beliefs or lack thereof, he didn’t turn around and say “This is in the name of Atheism” he didn’t use his or anyone elses atheism as justification for what he did and he doesn;t have to either, because being an atheist was not the catalyst for him commiting mass murder. The same goes for Pol Pott, evil twat? Yes! But he wasn’t, as I have heard Christians call him, a Fundametalist Atheist (which is an oxymoron) the reasons for his mass murdering were…being a cunt!
Even if there was a tiny bit of evidence to suggest that Mao and Pol Pot’s Atheism was a key factor in thier actions, the claim that religion would have stopped them committing mass murder is tainted with about 2000 years of non-stop religious war & barbarism…What is the benefit of killing in the name of Atheism? Atheists believe that there is no God or afterlife i.e. NOTHING…who would Kill in the name of that which is not there?
I don’t think for that if everyone was an atheist all the horrors and evil of the world would suddenly vanish overnight (that’d take at least a fornight) BUT with a bg difference..
Global issues that we have today would all be the same in “Atheist-land” But, in my opinion, anyone planning on and carrying out the killing of hundreds, thousands or even millions of people would at least have to have the balls and the courage of thier convictions to admit that they were doing it purely for themselves instead of just hiding under God’s beard whilst quoting some shite from Leviticus.
If Mao & Pott were Christian men, It’s more likely that, not only would they have commited their monsterous atrocities but, they would have done so whilst claiming that it was what God wanted them to do for him…I need only look at Ariel Sheron, leader of the terrorist state of Isreal, who is illegally occupying someone elses country and massacaring thousands upon thousands of the Palestinian people every day…Just like Mao & Pot BUT Sheron gets away with it. Why? due to the media’s bias towards Isreal but mainly because Ariel is trying to lead God’s chosen people back home to their promised land where the return of Jesus is expected anytime now…anytime NOW!…now?….whatever.
At the end of the day Sheron is no different to Moa or Pott but because he’s taking the Jews back to their land which they claim God gave to them (since when was God a fucking estate agent) Who’s gonna argue with them when they have God on thier side…oh and the UK…and USA…as well as several thousand nuclear missiles which means their WMD’s out number those of every other middle east nation combined.
…Oh an Hitler? He wasn’t an Atheist, that’s called a lie, which means the Christians who say Hitler was an Atheist have broken one of God’s commandments and as a result they are all gonna burn in Hell for all eternity…But remeber that he loves you all.
Look here Christians you childish bunch of fucking drama queens…You’ve had a good run yeah? 1,800 years in charge is what I would call “a good crack at the whip”?
And now your numbers are dropping, your flock is fleeting and every year the atheist numbers are growing. We are also no longer content with being polite and having to hide our God-less-ness away in a darkened room never to bring it up just for the benefit of God’s fanclub…why? How come no one ever tells a Christian…
“Listen do not start banging on about God and Jesus when Terry is in the room, you know it just aggravates him?”
Why am I the one who has to be quiet so as not to offend anyones beliefs. What about my beliefs, or lack of them? Are they empty?
What’s the worst that could happen if the deeply religious were given a damn good unholy roasting by a heretic?
If you are deeply religious then surely what I, or anyone else says means nothing to you…you will be rewarded in Heaven…I will burn in Hell…yes? so what are you all so very afraid of?
If atheism is on the rise then it’s not through brainwashing because atheists don’t have a church, bible, recruitment policy, schools just for us, government presence, lobbying power, drug rehab dogma and we don’t get to pound our views and opinions into the impressionable minds of young kids who believe in the tooth fairy and the boogeyman…
…so ask yourselves Christians; If you have got all that in your favour and all atheists have is “The God Delusion” and some crusty old copies of “Hustler” yet, in your eyes, WE are the ones who are destroying YOU + after having only been in out the public domain for a few years…What does that say about the validity and the rationality of your irrelevent, bronze age bullshit?
Oh and one more thing; Atheism is NOT a religion. People like to say it is but it’s not. That’d be like saying; “Sleeping is an Excercise” because it is the exact opposite. Just like “Bald” is not a hair colour, its an absence of hair…or my favourite metaphor…”Abstinence” is just like Fucking….which, as all young Catholic kids will learn from their priest, is very wrong indeed.
Religion requires people to follow, believe, do this, do that, don’t do this and thou shalt not blah blah blah…
Atheism requires you to believe in nothing that you don;t want to, it asks you for nothing, it gives back to you nothing, you have to pay ancient myths nothing, you must follow nothing and thou shalt not be afraid of nothing.
All the best Richard “Amoral Atheistic Ape” Coughlan
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