ATHEISM, SELF-REALISATION RATHER THAN CONVERSION

The world is full of Atheists. The only trouble is they don’t know it yet. That is why strictly speaking there are no converts to Atheism but only people who realise what they are and what they always were.

Nobody really believes in free will meaning the power to intend evil, defined by religion as selfishness, or good, defined by religion as unselfishness. People say and think and feel they do believe but they do not.

 

I know I am most sure I exist therefore anything I do I should do it for me.  I should give my money away to the poor because I feel like it.  This is not altruism for I am doing it because I feel like it and not for them though they will benefit.

 

If I am honest, I do everything I do because I feel like it.  If I help others it is because I wish to.  It is about my wish and not them. Those who disagree are confusing the benefit for others with the wish to commit the act of benefiting others.  The two are separate.

 

Let’s prove it.

 

If I value money my act is to value.  The money is incidental.  How do I know?  Because if I value people my act is to value.  In both I value, my action is to value.  It is exactly the same act but it is only what is valued that is different.  If I throw a snowball my act is to throw.  The exact same act will throw a javelin.  The act is the same – it is only what is thrown that is different.  So it makes no sense to say that to value money is selfish and that it is unselfish to value people.  The act is exactly the same, the valuing is exactly the same but it is only the focus of the valuing that is different.  It would make as much sense to say that tasting wine was good but tasting milk was bad.  Or that tasting wine was unselfish and tasting milk was selfish.  Tasting is just tasting just as valuing is just valuing.  If tasting something in particular has good results or if valuing something in particular has good results, if they help people better than not doing them would, that is a by-product of the tasting or valuing.  People will value what they want or are pre-determined by their psyche to value.  It is the valuing that is important – not what is valued.  Therefore if I am selfish for valuing money I am just as selfish for valuing people.

 

There is no sacrifice for what I do I want to do under the circumstances. My will is just about me meaning that if I do wrong it is a mistake and not a sin or crime. The will is about gratifying desire not about evil and good which are the consequences of the intent but not the intent itself. Life is easier when we remember that what we do, we do for ourselves even if we are not keen on it and it gives us a sense of comfort. The doctrine of free will takes that away from us. People never do wrong because they deny their responsibility – they do it because they fail to see how useless and unattractive wrong is. The doctrine of free will suggests otherwise which is why the doctrine is a slander against us that we will not stand for.

 

I cannot believe I have free will.  I only assume it.  I could be programmed by nature to feel free for I wouldn’t be happy if I didn’t feel free.  But feelings prove nothing.  I cannot see the inner forces in my mind that cause me to act or “decide”.

Because free will is rejected nobody believes in God but they just pretend to themselves that they do by forgetting the facts. God cannot exist if there is no free will in us for that renders suffering meaningless and useless. We should be programmed to do good and live in a perfect world. People don’t really want to believe in God for it means there is this being condemning nearly everything they do for anything imperfect is wrong. Even not sitting upright in your chair is a sin for you are not sitting properly. Not noticing means you are sinfully distracted from God for he is goodness itself. Nobody wants to say that the evil that happens is good in the sense that a good God lets it happen for it is better to see evil as totally useless and hateful for the people we see come before any religious concept such as God therefore belief in God and love for him is against nature and we don’t really want to believe and love him but are deluded by religion and society to think that we do want to. We also know that the harm done by God and religion cannot be made to look better by saying that believers mean well for a man who murders to get money to save his child’s life means well and still we condemn his act.

We all know though many of us act as if we don’t, that you cannot really love the sinner and hate the sin. The sin is something a person did and to hate what a person did is to hate a person being a person for acting consciously is what makes a person a person. Sins are acts that only persons can commit.  You can only have personal feelings in relation to sin – when you condemn sin its personal.  Sin reveals the sinner so a separate treatment for sin and another for the sinner is just ridiculous and impossible and deceptive.  The fact that we hate those who are evil proves that we do not separate the sin from the sinner for we cannot do it for it makes no sense. Atheists can separate the evil from the person doing it for we don’t believe in free will. If it is right to separate the evil from the person then we may as well deny free will. This means we are Atheists at heart.

Nobody really believes that certain things are wrong no matter what the circumstances for if doing the best is ever wrong it is always wrong.

Everybody knows that the truths about life and decent living should be simple ones both in content and in their verification and that the complexities of religion are disgraceful.

We all know that any evil we do or irrational and hasty thinking we do is motivated by fear.  Even if slack thinking is down to laziness, fear is the cause.  Laziness is only given in to because one desires to enjoy over-relaxation.

 

Love is happiness and it is contagious. This is the principle which sums up Atheism. It is because we see that loving God or religion is rooted in fear that we reject them. We are all Atheists at heart.

Religion is a hijacker. It steals the best in other philosophies and then claims that the principles are part of itself and always have been. The Catholic Church says that all good comes from God alone so any good in the world is from his true Church though which he works in the world.

 

The idea that the person is the most important thing in the world which implies that capital punishment is wrong has been hijacked by many religionists though their Bibles tell them that gays and adulterers should be cruelly killed and that Jesus took our penalty of capital punishment on himself so that we would be able to rise from the dead.

 

The Catholic Church claims that it despises sectarianism but then it advocates it against unbaptised babies. It goes as far as to say they are not children of God.  It is when if you imagine the Church saying that only white children are called to baptism and black are not and attempts to baptise them will be invalid that you see how vicious its teaching is. 

 

They know that the Genesis stories of the flood and the fall cannot be true so they say the authors never intended them to be taken literally. But that is dishonest when the texts never even say that they are non-literal but presents the tales in such a way that we can be sure that the author did mean them literally. Then the religionists have the gall to say there are no errors in the Bible for it is God’s word. Religious theft must be exposed. Religion puts its best foot forward to delude the sheep. Any money donated to religion should be returned to the benefactors. All goodness comes from the philosophy that is now called Atheism. There is too much disagreement between religions for it to be just a difference of opinion. Most of the disagreements are really just unwillingness to admit when the other side is right. From this it follows that most religion is a con and we should keep away from it.

When most people cannot give good reasons for their faith then it follows that any reasons they have are not good enough and they must know it. They must feel uneasy when they think about the reasons. The Protestant who says that he is convinced that Lutheranism is right must realise that the Catholic can be convinced about Catholicism or the Mormon about Mormonism if he can be that convinced. It is certain that with all the religious differences in the world it is pure arrogance to claim that Jesus was infallible or to be part of the true Church.

The majority of people have barely any faith and they can behave themselves reasonably well.  Religion is a threat to belief in right and wrong for it is more interested in authority than in ethics.  For example, for a Catholic the papal condemnation of contraception settles the matter.  Contraception is wrong even if it saves lives.  The doctrine that two wrongs don’t make a right is contradicted by God slaying Jesus for our sins and countless other doctrines.  Those whose faith in right and wrong is weak because of religion usually behave kind of well too.  - who says we need religion for the safety of our moral standards?  The point is that we don’t really need religion.  The clergy trick us to make us think we do.

 

The strongest moral standards are reserved to those who know what right and wrong are. You cannot be really a good person if you only follow your rules because you like them or because somebody said they were right. That is irresponsibility even when the consequences are not harmful. Religion certainly encourages that!  Bibles and popes and Churches often dictate what is right and wrong and that their authority shouldn’t be questioned.

We offer joy. The joy offered by Christianity and Islam is a false joy for it is not grounded in wisdom and reality and consistent thinking. For example, would it make sense to be joyful in the gospel according to twelve men we know next to nothing about and not in the testimony of three witnesses with a contrary gospel who we can vouch for? Such joy is unhealthy. It’s a psychiatric sickness and if you are going to accept it then accept the joy that a thief gets from stealing. Joy is meant to be caused by reality so any joy that is not is a sickness. The joy we offer is the authentic joy of truth. To take the side of joy is to take part in our movement at least in spirit.

Concern for the ultimate and important truths is not a religious attitude. To admit you do not know it all and must keep searching and examining what you are told is to admit that Jesus himself and the word of God may have to be left behind and discarded if new light on them comes up and the light says this has to be done. So you do not know if your honesty or love for truth is going to keep you in religion or not. So it is not a religious activity.

If it is true that humanity feels a need to serve God then atheists are God’s best friends for if he is good we are the ones that are open-minded about what good is. To be good would be to serve God even if you don’t believe in God. We reject the idols that most people have as substitutes for God.

Atheists reject tolerance for tolerance means putting up with something bad so it is quite insulting and grudging. But if people believe what they are doing is good we should encourage them to do it even if it is contrary to our principles. But nevertheless we have to try and win others to our way of thinking because it is the only way to certainty and joy. Can we encourage a person to commit murder? If they believe murder is right and by encouraging them to do what they think is right but to think more and everybody should think more we are not encouraging murder for we are concerned only with them doing what they believe in. If you encourage a Muslim to go to the Mosque though you do not approve of Islam you are not being a hypocrite or intending to further Islam but you are furthering a different and separate thing, the autonomy of the person. People do often make logical mistakes.