Antithesis
Scribbled on 12 May, 2006 at about 4:50 a.m.
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You know, over my years, I think I've pretty well run the gamut. I was born and raised a Christian. From there I moved to a quiet pantheism, through atheism and agnosticism, and only more recently evolved into an antitheist.
Don't get me wrong, this doesn't mean that I'm hostile to the idea of some great power out there, that I automatically denounce all religions as false...I'm still fairly open to the idea that there's a Greater Power out there. I still want it to be true. But I think I'm finally ready to come to the conclusion that I'm fundamentally against -religion- and Christianity especially.
Why? It's a lot like communism. Flawless idea in theory, keep the people in line, make them be good to one another, etc. Chaos in execution. It can't work. People are too greedy, too self-important. Nobody, and I mean -nobody- is ready to treat everybody as an equal, love thy neighbor without exception, any of the basic foundations of either ideal.
The Ten Commandments are a prime example . You people need to be told this shit? Basically, it's somebody handing down a tablet saying "be nice to eachother or I'm gonna make you regret it." Whether it comes from the government and from God, people ignore it. They step all over eachother, destroy or end eachother's lives for any reason at all, even just a whim. You don't -need- anyone more powerful than yourself to give you this kind of instruction if you have good intentions. Why, then, set it down, knowing it isn't going to make any difference?
If you need this kind of threat to be in place before you'll treat your fellow man with any modicum of respect, then fuck you. You damn well deserve 20 years in prison and/or eternal damnation for not having any personal compunction against harming your brother
Even the people who claim to stand for, even dedicate their lives to upholding these biblical ideals, break them with every other breath. I am sick to death of these assholes sitting on their high horses handing down condemnations for everyone but themselves.
YOU claim that these things are Everything to you, even the one about judging others? Yeah, that lasted long, didn't it, you fucktard?
Yeah, hey, look what I'm doing..judging the ignorant! Guess that's one foundation I don't stand for. Honestly, I don't believe in it, even in the slightest. If you shit all over everyone else, you deserve my scorn and I'm damn well going to give it to you. But I sure as hell don't intend to do so while maintaining that it's wrong to scorn you for it.
FFS, judge eachother on your deeds, we all know it's deserved. But stop spouting about how wrong it is and maintaining this pathetic ideal that you're somehow immune.
"There are no atheists in foxholes." I've heard this THREE TIMES now since two weeks ago I killed myself. What the hell kind of diseased mind even comes up with this as an argument? Okay, let's assume against all common sense that the people making this argument actually did their research, and discovered, against all odds, that there isn't a single person fighting in wars who doesn't believe in any God.
I'll tell you this much in their support: You can go back through all of recorded history, and you will NEVER see any accounts of wars initiated or propagated by an atheist wanting to WIPE OUT entire cultures because they have different spiritual beliefs.
I DARE you to come up with one example of an atheist starting a war or genocide on the grounds that they believe some indefinable, unreachable Greater Power believed they were Righteous.
Fuck that, we're here to make our own way, and if we believe our cause is just, we have to convince ourselves of that.
I may not always be right in that sort of decision, but I'll tell you this. It's a lot harder to go through with something horrible when you have to answer to yourself if you're wrong, than it is to do it under the blind belief that even if it doesn't make sense to you that it's right anyway and simply beyond your understanding.
Religions have had their chance to change the world, to influence people's behaviour, and make the world better. It's gotten us nowhere except a world full of factions who hate eachother and are willing to do whatever it takes to wipe eachother out. Is that the kind of world any loving God would want?
I'm just one voice, but I hope that I can speak for a lot of similar thinkers when I say that it's time for us to accept that we're damn well responsible for our own actions.
Maybe a lot of people will treat eachother better when you take away the option of Doing Unto Others under the belief that you're following something unquestionable, and force the world to realize that we have to shoulder our own guilt when we destroy something.
God isn't going to save mankind from itself. Why can't we just realize that it's our duty to save eachother?




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